Whither MaxTech's Wireless Drivers? 5
An Anonymous Coward writes: "My local ISP has put in a wireless network. It's great -- Except there's a $150 difference between the internal wireless card and the external box/hub.
I'm in the process of installing Linux on a lot of the local computers and would rather find drivers for these cards than change
the wireless equipment out... thus charging them a higher rate :(
The cards they are using are the Maxtech XWL420 ISA cards and I've
found references to the drivers, yet the links no longer work.
Does anyone have any idea where I can find drivers for these cards?
Anyone have any ideas for possible other cards that have Linux
drivers that are being maintained? Please -- any help would be fantastic and would please a lot of folks in this town."
Zcomax cards (Score:3)
The drivers for the XI-300 are released under the MPL and can be found at http://www.linux-wlan.org/
Wheeee! (Score:1)
For the copy and pasters: http://www.google.com/search?q=802.11+wireless+lin ux+cards
Working 802.11b/Linux setup (Score:3)
I have just set up a Nokia C111 card (through a PCI-PCMCIA adapter, also supplied by Nokia) on my Linux machine.
It works great, and Nokia supplies (mixed binary/source) Linux drivers for it, which you need to compile yourself into a kernel module.
I wasn't able to get it running on one of my machines running a 2.2.14 kernel, but the other machine, with a 2.4.5 kernel worked perfectly. I am going to upgrade the 2.2.14 machine to a more modern 2.2 series kernel, so we shall see if it works then.
The card and adapter cost NZ$300 and $160 respectively - halve those to get $US.
similar problem here (Score:1)
Has anyone else had to deal with this? If so, was there a solution that didn't involve forking over the $300 for the external box?
Just use an 802.11 compliant product with Drivers (Score:2)
A complete list: Wireless LAN resources for Linux [hp.com]