Compaq WL200 on Smoothwall (this time in plain text)

[Ian Castle]

The first generation Compaq Wireless cards are the same as the first 
generation samsung magiclan cards - all based on Prism2.

A year or so ago, linux-wlan-ng wouldn't do adhoc mode - so the only way to 
get adhoc mode was with the binary samsung drivers. However, performance of 
these drivers was poor, in my experience, with a noticable drop when using 
the driver on an SMP box.

Since the advent of the hostap_cs driver for prism2, the lack of adhoc support 
has not been a problem.

So I've used WL100 (PC Card), WL200 (PCI Card). I've not used the USB card. 

I don't recall the model names of the samsung ones - but I don't think you can 
get them now (this also applies to the compaq, WL100 and WL200 are no longer 
available) - so you need to make doubly sure which version you have.... 
although it may be that the newer ones are based on prism also - which would 
mean that the linux-wlan-ng stuff works ok for them - I simply don't know!)

On Tuesday 05 November 2002 23:26, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 07:02:59PM +0000, Ian Castle wrote:
> > I am sucessfully using a number of WL200 cards, one of them as an Access
> > Point. The WL200 is based on the intersil prism2 chipset.
> >
> > There are a number of drivers that you can use:
> >
> > 1) orinoco_cs
> > 2) Samsung (the WL200 is a rebadged Samsung product) sw11dpc_cs driver
> > 3) The linux-wlan-ng prism2_cs driver.
> > [...]
> > I'm very pleased with it really. And it is all open source/free software
> > (the samsung stuff is binary only - but you don't want to use that!).
>
> i'm a bit confused. do the samsung cards work with the prism2_cs driver
> too?
>
> the compaq WL200 cards are hard to find, but the samsung SWL-2100P is
> still in production AFAIK.
>
>
> (i'm about ready to settle for a dlink 520 card because i can get them
> easily, but if i can find one of the higher power compaq or samsung
> cards, i'd prefer to get that)
>
> craig