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Title: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: schlauf on December 12, 2012, 03:25:56 PM

Hi there,

well, the title supposedly says it all: I'm trying to set up a TCL-box with Wifi (an old notebook). Ebay lists some explicitly Linux-compatible PCMCIA-cards, but which of them can be used without any further fuzz? Don't want ndiswrapper, if it can be avoided ...

Cheers

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: Rich on December 12, 2012, 05:18:48 PM

Hi schlauf
You might be better off finding out which chipset some of these cards use and then Google for Linux drivers for
them. This will allow you to filter out devices that may be problematic. You can then post possible candidates
for comments by forum members.

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: ananix on December 13, 2012, 10:21:57 AM

Maybe this can help

http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/wiki:list_of_supported_wifi_devices

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 13, 2012, 12:50:01 PM

Umm... not a single PCMCIA card listed on that page :(

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: gerald_clark on December 13, 2012, 12:52:29 PM

Linksys WPC11 rev 3

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 06:55:58 PM

A USB WiFi adapter is better supported, starting with types that use N150 models.   Most of these models have been around a while and are more than likely supported but YMMV.  best to know the chip used

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 13, 2012, 07:11:05 PM

Quote from: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 06:55:58 PM

A USB WiFi adapter is better supported

Better in relation to what??

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 07:13:22 PM

Than PCMCIA cards, actually better availability.   It's been a few years since I've seen a PCMCIA in the stores, perhaps the OP has one already?

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 13, 2012, 07:17:18 PM

Prism II working out of the box after boot with  CorePlus :)

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 07:19:40 PM

If you have details maybe we could add them to the wiki  :)

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 13, 2012, 07:21:25 PM

Quote from: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 07:13:22 PM

Than PCMCIA cards, actually better availability.   It's been a few years since I've seen a PCMCIA in the stores, perhaps the OP has one already?

Market availability vs. linux driver support are different pairs of shoes.

Note that OP referred to ebay.

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 07:23:41 PM

You are right :)

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 07:26:27 PM

Come to think about it, I might have an old PCMCIA Wifi card in a box around here somewhere, maybe I should test it :)

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 14, 2012, 04:50:35 PM

Quote from: coreplayer2 on December 13, 2012, 07:19:40 PM

If you have details maybe we could add them to the wiki  :)

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,12910.msg82415.html#msg82415

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: coreplayer2 on December 16, 2012, 06:07:52 AM

Thanks, will do it asap

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: schlauf on December 25, 2012, 02:44:34 PM

Thanks everyone. I fell back on some ancient PRISMII-PCMCIA-Card (802.11b only) and secured the link with mandatory OpenVPN ad-hoc networking :)

Take care!

Title: Re: Wifi by PCMCIA card -- which chipsets are supported?
Post by: tinypoodle on December 26, 2012, 10:12:51 AM

It may be possible to use WPA with such cards with the hostap driver and wpa_supplicant.
Might require flashing firmware.