wireless usb or pci

hi everybody

I want to ask about RHEL4 support wireless network card or
wireless usb .
Can anyone suggest me , which brand that I should buy for
RHEL4 server?

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Zaw Htet wrote:
> hi everybody
> 
> I want to ask about RHEL4 support wireless network card
or wireless usb .
> Can anyone suggest me , which brand that I should buy
for RHEL4 server?

Brand isn't enough, you need model and revision; vendors are
known to 
revise cards and change the chipset:-(.

I have two cards based on a prism54 chipset (even this gets
tricky), and 
support for those in in the EL4 kernel. See prism54.org.
Note that cards 
supported by the EL kernel might not be current models. USB
doesn't 
(AFAIK) work.

Atheros cards are good, but you will need to build your own
drivers (or 
find a brand-X source, possibly Centos)

I think there has been good news re Broadcom and TI recently
- too 
recently for EL4.

If wireless is important () then
consider going to EL5 ASAP.


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On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 05:07 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Zaw Htet wrote:
> > hi everybody
> > 
> > I want to ask about RHEL4 support wireless network
card or wireless usb .
> > Can anyone suggest me , which brand that I should
buy for RHEL4 server?
> 
> Brand isn't enough, you need model and revision;
vendors are known to 
> revise cards and change the chipset:-(.
> 
> I have two cards based on a prism54 chipset (even this
gets tricky), and 
> support for those in in the EL4 kernel. See
prism54.org. Note that cards 
> supported by the EL kernel might not be current models.
USB doesn't 
> (AFAIK) work.
> 
> Atheros cards are good, but you will need to build your
own drivers (or 
> find a brand-X source, possibly Centos)
> 
A good source for Atheros card support (using madwifi) is
ATrpms
(http://atrpms.net
/dist/el4/madwifi/)

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On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 11:14 +1100, Karl Latiss wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 05:07 +0800, John Summerfield
wrote:
> > Zaw Htet wrote:
> > > hi everybody
> > > 
> > > I want to ask about RHEL4 support wireless
network card or wireless usb .
> > > Can anyone suggest me , which brand that I
should buy for RHEL4 server?
> > 
> > Brand isn't enough, you need model and revision;
vendors are known to 
> > revise cards and change the chipset:-(.
> > 
> > I have two cards based on a prism54 chipset (even
this gets tricky), and 
> > support for those in in the EL4 kernel. See
prism54.org. Note that cards 
> > supported by the EL kernel might not be current
models. USB doesn't 
> > (AFAIK) work.
> > 
> > Atheros cards are good, but you will need to build
your own drivers (or 
> > find a brand-X source, possibly Centos)
> > 
> A good source for Atheros card support (using madwifi)
is ATrpms

"partial source"... 





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Zaw Htet wrote :

> I want to ask about RHEL4 support wireless network card
or wireless usb .
> Can anyone suggest me , which brand that I should buy
for RHEL4 server?

I've gotten really tired with wifi, myself... I'm lucky
enough to have
both a PCMCIA and A PCI Prism2 cards, which work great with
the orinoco
module, unfortunately at only 11Mbps. When I last needed to
buy a new
card, I bought a D-Link PCI with an Atheros chip... not bad,
but very
expensive (about twice the price of a similar D-Link with an
ACX chip)
and with the need of an external kernel module, with some
non-free
bits. I also bought that D-Link with the ACX chip later
on... and had
mostly a rough time with it. I've finally got a kernel
module working
with it which is NetworkManager friendly, but you still need
to get a
firmware from somewhere...

The easiest are still ipw2100, ipw2200 and (currently to a
lesser
extent) ipw3195, but I've never seen any PCI cards with
those chips,
they seem to only be manufactured as MiniPCI for Centrino
laptops :-(

Last solution but not the least : I changed my home AP, a
D-Link
AP2100, for a Wifi/ADSL2 device not long ago, and I still
had the that
AP lying around. I was tired of having a very poor
connection from a
computer I use on my living room TV (with the D-Link PCI
Atheros), and
instead of spending money in an external antenna which could
have
helped (since the computer is "buried" below the
TV, between Hi-Fi
elements and loud speakers..), I connected the D-Link AP
with a
cross-over cable to the computer and configured it as an AP
client.
Pretty neat since it even supports WPA-PSK TKIP, so it
"just worked"
and on the computer I no longer need to worry about anything
else than
eth0! The wireless works MUCH better like this, since the AP
is above
all of the Hi-Fi equipment.

I think I'll be doing this more often : A decent AP doesn't
cost much
more than a good PCI card, and you avoid the hassle of
having a
wireless chip to support under Linux. And the day you don't
need it
anymore, you can re-use it as an AP again  Some
devices can even act
as both a client and an AP, but they usually have to be from
the same
brand since it's not standard (this D-Link seems to be able
to do that,
but my ADSL2 device is of a different brand and can't).

This is almost off-topic, sorry... but all I really wanted
to say is
that hunting for a supported device currently still s*cks,
and that
using an AP device as a client is the easiest I've found so
far.

Matthias

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Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>>>Atheros cards are good, but you will need to
build your own drivers (or 
>>>find a brand-X source, possibly Centos)
>>>
>>
>>A good source for Atheros card support (using
madwifi) is ATrpms
> 
> 
> "partial source"... 

Doesn't that apply to the Intel ipw3945 too?


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On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 06:14 +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> >>>Atheros cards are good, but you will need
to build your own drivers (or 
> >>>find a brand-X source, possibly Centos)
> >>>
> >>
> >>A good source for Atheros card support (using
madwifi) is ATrpms
> > 
> > 
> > "partial source"... 
> 
> Doesn't that apply to the Intel ipw3945 too?

at least for 3945 the kernel side is fully open, and soon no
other bits
(other than firmware) are going to be needed.

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