what's the preferred Wireless NIC for Knoppix - SMC a no-no

I've just learned (to my great dismay) that my SMC Ultra NIC won't
work well with Knoppix (or perhaps at all). In order to save myself needless further grief :oops: I've decided to buy a new NIC - preferably
a wireless PCI.

Can anyone tell me if there is a first-choice card that is guaranteed to
work well with Knoppix? (Do we have a supported hardware list somewhere??).

thanks,
Stefan

Not a guarantee, but I've had reasonably good results with my Lucent/Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card, including support for WEP encryption via iwconfig.

I'm running an older Orinoco Lucent card. It works fine, but requires a

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> iwconfig eth0 essid XXX

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and unplugging the card before it'll take off. The menu sequence does not seem to work for this card.

Otherwise it's wonderful!

I would recommend the NetGear MA311 PCI card if you're looking for wireless PCI. That has worked well for me -- and is auto-recognized by Knoppix. Also is recognized by Red Hat 9 with a little bit of work... SuSE 8.2 recognizes automatically as well.

Hope that helps!

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Originally Posted by stefan_isaacs

(Do we have a supported hardware list somewhere??).

thanks,
Stefan

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A good place to start is the The Linux Documentation Project and as always Google Linux .

Another convenient place is to look in the kernel config after you cd to /usr/src/linux and do make xconfig. Don't forget mailinglists too.

I'm afraid something like the Linux Documentation Project or googling Linux is less than useful. I have a very common card (SMC Ultra ISA), supported by nearly every flavour of Linux as far as I can tell, that is not supported by Knoppix.

The Linux Doc Project just lets me know which cards are supported under _a_ variant of Linux - not which variant.

What I'm looking for is a specific listing of what cards/configurations Knoppix supports. Surely that wouldn't be too difficult to have a list for somewere?

Other people seem to think there is a use for this...

thanks, S.

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Originally Posted by stefan_isaacs

What I'm looking for is a specific listing of what cards/configurations Knoppix supports. Surely that wouldn't be too difficult to have a list for somewere?

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There is one here more of a work in progress really but you have to start somewhere.

Thanks.. this site is a great resource and much more of what I was
looking for. I will, of course, contribute my data to it as well.

cheers,
Stefan

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Originally Posted by Stephen

There is one here more of a work in progress really but you have to start somewhere.

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Wow this list has really come along. When it first started I wondered if it would get enough entries to be useful, but it clearly has. I feel guilty for not contributing! I will now.

BTW, I also second other's choice of the Orioco Gold card. This has to be the best supported wireless card availble for linux. It has always worked perfectly. I have had problems with both Netgear and Dlink pci cards. I just got a Linksys wireless usb adapter (WUSB12) and after following the tips here it works fine (except for encryption which I haven't gotten working yet).