RE: Laptop Considerations

["Gary E. Miller" <gem () rellim com>]

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Yo Ghaith!

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Ghaith Nasrawi wrote:

> some of you mentioned that they have 802.11a cards working under
> linux! All the 802.11a cards I've come across used Atheros chipsets,
> and I couldn't find linux drivers for any of them. How about you guys?

There is no complete solution for Broadcom or Atheros chips on Linux.
These two can get you on the net:
        http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
        http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/

The madwifi driver is even supported by Kismet.

RGDS
GARY
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