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Re: [LUG] WiFi

 

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Robin Cornelius wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Neil Stone <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> I'm looking in to getting WiFi working at home.. (toying with kismet)
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>> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=43481&doy=6m9
>> http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?TabID=1&ModuleNo=43475&doy=6m9
>
> I think these are broadcom chipsets and I think broadcom support is
> still a bit flakey. There are some broadcom linux drivers but I don't
> know much about the broadcom stuff.
>
> Get your self a ralink device! (no hidden motive what so ever
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Developers) ;-)
>
> Device list :- http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware
>
> The legacy drivers, ie ralinks original with our bug fixes are pretty
> rock solid now. As long as you are not doing SMP or bigendian and the
> ebuild project is bubbling along nicely. We are also "upstream" in the
> kernel source tree now.
>
> Kismet works well and the chipset seems to have quite good rf pickup.
>
> Regards
>
The other choice is Atheros based cards, e.g. the Netgear WG511T.  The
madwifi project is pretty well solid, http://madwifi.sourceforge.net

Kind regards,

Julian
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