[PLUG] Wireless PCMCIA cards

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Mon Aug 1 18:05:11 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 21:24 -0700, Nick Aubert wrote:
> On 7/31/05, Eric Wilhelm <ewilhelm at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > I haven't been fond of this card.  I've had some problems where the
> > driver quits working after a few hotplugs and I have to reboot to get
> > wireless again.  It's my understanding (though it's been about a year
> > since I messed with it) that some features (like WPA) are not available
> > with this card.
> 
> I haven't had that kind of problem, but I don't do a lot of
> hotplugging.  My second-hand T20 Thinkpad has a whopping 2 hours of
> battery life.  When it's at my desk I use the regular ethernet, and
> when it's away, it's going to get rebooted pretty soon anyway.
> 
> > >I know that other people have gotten
> > >madwifi working with WPA, I just haven't had the time to figure out
> > >how.  Aside from that, the card performs well.
> > 
> > I would sure like to hear more about that.
> 
> Yeah, me too :-)  According to the forums I've read, it should be
> possible to get madwifi working with WPA.  I haven't looked to see if
> anyone is using WPA with this particular card though.

I have an Atheros card using the Madwifi drivers. I have not tried
getting WPA to work.  At some point I need to replace me wifi router
first.  (The current one is a piece of crap.)





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