On Friday (03/08/2002 at 01:23PM -0600), Nate Carlson wrote: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Clay Fandre wrote: > > > In my experience, Linksys AP's are fairly decent, but the Linksys cards > > > suck. > > > > So what are some good APs? Or are they all pretty much the same? > > I've played with Cisco, Orinoco, Linksys, and D-Link.. out of those, the > only one I don't like is my D-Link. The other 3 are pretty nice.. about > equal range, etc.. Boy, I can second that! I have burned weeks trying to get the D-Link DWL-650 Prism2 based card to work correctly with any flavor of Linux. No can do. Firstly, the card lies about what PCMCIA power supply voltage it should get... it tells the platform it should have 3.3v but it doesn't work for beans at the voltage. There's some secret voodoo to do to the driver to get it to ignore the 3.3v request and use 5v instead-- which helps a little... but even after that, the card will die after random periods of time and/or activity. You can try the wlan-ng driver from Absolute Value Systems but once you put that on the platform, then the other drivers (orinoco_cs for example) get hosed and the Orinoco cards won't work anymore. The Absolute Value driver seems to want to be the ONLY wireless LAN driver on the machine which I find very annoying. I have absolutely no complaints about Lucent Orinoco cards in the Linux world... along with the orinoco_cs driver. They just work... and work well. cje -- Chris Elmquist | mailto:chrise at pobox.com | http://www.pobox.com/~chrise