From: "madodel" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 07:49:16 -0500
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: Cardbus 802.11g card with WPA for eCS or Linux?
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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



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