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Topic: Dynex PCMCIA WiFi (Best Buy house brand), Wondering if this card works with DSL 4

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roberts

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,14:23

My Airlink Super G pcmcia is an Atheros based card, (AR5212). It works out of the box. However, with Atheros there are so many different chipset all called atheros and all use the same named files for ndiswraper, yet they are different.

I believe the card in question is an AR5005, so it is different. For example the Atheros in the eeePC is a AR5007 and that one has been reported not to work. And, worse yet the module for it requires a 2.6 kernel. Perhaps more research is needed.

I have tested wpa_supplicant in DSL with ndiswrapper and it worked fine. Others have also reported such.

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,14:49

More info on Atheros card from the Madwif sources.

There are currently three "programming generations" of Atheros 802.11
wireless devices (some of these have multiple hardware implementations
but otherwise appear identical to users):

5210 supports 11a only
5211 supports both 11a and 11b
5212 supports 11a, 11b, and 11g

These parts have been incorporated in a variety of retail products
including Cardbus cards from D-Link, Linksys, Netgear, Orinoco, Proxim,
and 3Com; and mini-pci cards from some of these same vendors. In
addition, many laptop vendors use Atheros mini-pci cards for their
built-in wireless support.

For an up-to-date list of cards based on Atheros parts visit:
http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,15:00

There are also variations based on firmware; my card is a 5212, yet it doesn't support 11a at all.

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,15:18

Wow, I've looked everywhere I can think of but haven't found an Airlink Super G PCMCIA. I'm no dummy (I hope) and I'd buy exactly the same card you have Robert (it's the best chance for stability I figure) but I haven't found a source. eBay has no listings, my local computer stores and office supply places also don't have.

I'm going to go pick up the Dynex and keep it sealed until I decide where I'm going with this.

I know it's stupid to ask this... but if someone were to recommend the best choice for a WPA compliant PCMCIA card for DSL, I'd probably spend the extra 20$ knowing that future versions would be built with that piece of hardware in mind.

Anybody have an Airlink Super G PCMCIA like Robert's that they'd like to sell me? I'm in Montreal, shipping in NA would be trivial and I'm not cheap when I make up my mind about things.

Thanks,
John

PS - What's the difference between the nomenclatures PCMCIA and Cardbus?

roberts

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Posted: Nov. 24 2007,15:47

Cardbus has a gold colored edge. Mine is cardbus.
On my oldest laptops, in order to use cardbus, I need to boot with pci=assign_busses

My AirLink Super G is model AWLC4030 - II

I got this a Fry's Electronics. Very cheap.
Works with DSL both natively and with ndiswrapper.

Edited by roberts on Nov. 24 2007,15:48

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