Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #866

From:	"madodel" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Cardbus 802.11g card with WPA for eCS or Linux?
Date:	Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:49:16 -0500
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Robert Henschel wrote: madodel wrote: Anyone know of a good Cardbus wireless 802.11g card that will work with either eCS or Linux? My wife wants to use my old P4 laptop in her office and I want it reasonably secure so I need to use WPA and I don't want no stinking windoze. Does this exist for eCS? WPA will only work for GenMAC supported devices, I am reasonably sure about that. > And since this is a software solution, I would assume that it will work for any GenMAC supported device. I know that there are Cardbus cards that work with GenMAC, but I also know that it can be hard to get them to work. (and btw, only Cardbus cards will work with GenMAC, no PCMCIA!) I was aware of that, and I have used the Cisco 340/350 and the IBM High Rate PCMCIA cards with Jen's driver but they don't do WPA, so I am looking for a working cardbus 802.11g card. But since I have never done that before, I cannot comment any further. My best guess is searching the GenMAC list for supported Cardbus "g" cards and trying one of those. I looked there and mostly what I found was people asking if a certain Cardbus card worked but no definitive answer, but I may very well have missed something. On eComStation.ru there were a very few listed that I could identify as Cardbus. A Netgear 108 Mbps Wireless PC Card WG511T and a D-Link -- DWL-G650. Thorolf also mentions a D-Link -- DWL-AG660 but said he only got it working after a patch he received from Willibald at WSE06 so it may work with a future release of GenMac. Unfortunately I need a working solution soon. I assume the Netgear 108 will work OK with a Netgear 54Mbps router. These still seem to be readily available and he doesn't say he used a special build of GenMac so that may be my solution. I wonder if the regular Netgear WG511 will work with GenMac, since all I need is 54Mbps and WPA? Is WPA difficult to setup using GenMac? According to their web site Xandros supports all of these cards as well so that could be a fall back for me. Mark -- From the eComStation Desktop of: Mark Dodel Warpstock 2007 - Where?, http://www.warpstock.org Warpstock Europe - http://www.warpstock.net For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice.org "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That in it's essence, is Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power." Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Message proposing the Monopoly Investigation, 1938

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