No G for Linux
Christopher A. Bier
chris.bier at cymor.com
Tue May 27 18:19:32 CDT 2003
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On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 23:19, Steven Elling wrote:
>I've jumped on the WiFi waggon a few months ago and I would suggest
avoiding
> Linksys.
- From my research, they are the easiest to get working.
> I've got the Linksys WPC11 ver.3 PCMCIA card and befw11s4 ver.3 AP.
The
> PCMCIA card stops communicating with the AP for no reason and after an
> indeterminate time. I have to restart the wlan service or remove and
> reinsert the card to get it to work again.
I also have a WPC11 and BEFW11S4. I have not had the connection
dropping
problem. Are you using the latest version of linux-wlan?
The only thing I haven't gotten working, so far, is 64 or 128 bit WEP,
but
I haven't tried very hard, yet.
> I did a search on Google for a solution but all I could find is a
bunch of
> other people having the same problem but no solution. From what I can
tell
> from the posts, Linksys' own WPC11 ver.3 PCMCIA card won't work
reliably
> with their own APs. The card looks to work fine with other
manufacturers
> APs though. You would think a manufacturer would do a little quality
> control especially with their own products but it doesn't look like
it.
Check the linux-wlan group.
> I used to be a fan of Linksys because their cards are cheap (low cost
wise)
> but with the problems I've had with the WPC11 PCMCIA and LNE100TX
cards I
> now just think their products are plain cheap.
I have yet to have a problem with any i've bought.
Chris
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