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Supported WLAN Cards for ASL 5 ?

Hello everybody with WLAN,
is there a list of supported Hardware, because the HCL from Astaro it self is not very informational for the topic. Which Cards you use?

I need a WLAN Card for ASL 5 to use it at home wireless.
Has anybody good or bad experience with WLAN Cards?

Greetings, and thanks for answers.

Martin

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0 William Warren over 21 years ago

AFAIK the only WLAN cards supported are prism 1-3 chipsets.

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0 notoriousiroc over 21 years ago in reply to William Warren

That is correct, you need a PCMCIA (No PCI support for WLAN) card with a Prism compatible chipset.
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0 MeeZ over 21 years ago in reply to notoriousiroc

I found the thing with PCMCIA in HCL 4.7 but what cards are supported? Which vendors? Level One, D-Link, Digitus, 3Com,....? I need a cheap card, because I need it only for home use.

Grettings,

Martin
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0 William Warren over 21 years ago in reply to MeeZ

you have to research your cards to see what wlan chipset it uses. There are quite a few out there but only the ones mentioned earlier are supported. What is easier is i just bought a wireless access point and am using that. Plus ASL's encryption only supoprts WEP instead of the newer WPA.

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0 Tester100 over 21 years ago

Any PCI based Prism cards will also work with V5 of ASL. If the card is support by the HostAP project, ASL will also support it since the WLAN feature is HostAP.

To use a PCI card you have to manually add the following line to your etc/modules.conf

alias wlan0 hostap_pci

You can then configure the card from webmin
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0 FN-Eagle over 21 years ago in reply to MeeZ

Please check HCL 5.0 for Wireless PCMCIA Cards here.

I recommend using Netgear MA401
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0 BarryG over 21 years ago

Anyone know what the status is on the 802.11G cards?

I thought linux drivers had been released for the Prism GT or 54G cards.

Barry
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0 BarryG over 21 years ago in reply to BarryG

ping?
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0 ronzle over 21 years ago in reply to BarryG

Hi all

We support all wireless cards which are listed on the HCL-5 at
http://docs.astaro.org. These cards are tested with ASL V5.
Furthermore all cards with the Prism chipsets 2 / 2.5 / 3 should work. You can find a list of the wlan ng project here .

At this time there is no status for the support of
802.11G cards.
We check if it possible to implement the new drivers into the ASL distribution [;)]

regards
Ronny
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0 yashax over 21 years ago in reply to ronzle

Ronny,
I am using the Z-Com 802.11b XI625 mini-PCI Prism2/2.5/3 card from the "wlan ng project". When I install ASL v5 software it does not detect the card.

Can you or anyone please give me some pointers on how to get it to work?

Thank you,

J
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