Mini-PCI, 802.11g, Linux and You

I don't know exactly where to find the drivers you want, but if you search google or something for "WMP54G" and "linux", you will probably find some good info.

-Mike

Wifi

Ummmm. Mini PCI , PCI, or pcmcia doesn't make that huge difference, as long as the card is listed in the lspci output, it will be associated with an IRQ, and considering ya have the proper driver it will work.

For G cards, the driver is beta as the specs of operation aren't released by constructors, and as Dlink states it on their site, do not buy a G and wait for Linux drivers, they might never come.
here for beta drivers of G cards :

http://acx100.sourceforge.net/matrix.html

But now, here is a real question :

To all : Why 802.11 G ? What kind of connection do you guys have that an 11 mbits net makes it the bottleneck ?
If i suppose you guys have VERY fast lines, lest say a dual T3 ( at home lol ) that will bring you to 8/9 Mbits down, this is not enough to saturate your 11 Mbits wifi local network. Why wanting to have 54 Mbits ( or even 108 Mbits as it was released ) ? This is a joke. You won't go faster if your dsl/cable line doesn't follow. It is only useful for phat local file transfer. Don't fall into the hype, don't be such a perfect consumer.

as info :
512 kbits down = 64 Kbytes/sec
8 Mbits down = 1000 Kbytes/sec
11 Mbits down = 1375 Kbytes/sec
54 Mbits down = 6750 Kbytes/sec

Who has a 54 Mbits idown internet connection ? Please rise your hands


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Don't believe the Hype. Read, read, read, wait, wait, wait, then maybe buy.

Wifi limitations

As it appears, here is a flaw in the wifi discovered by the french CNRS in last July ( IMAG in Grenoble ). The flaw comes from the access protocol CSMA / CA ( Carrier Sense Multiple access/ Collision Avoidance ) . Effectively it stipulate that when 10 users share a wifi network and are at different distances from the access point, their speed transfer can vary greatly and even go down to 1 M bit when the signal / noise and link quality ratio drops. Problem is, when that occurs, all other users on the wifi network will drop to the lowest transfer rate. Off course this occurs only while for example dll a web page, and the drop in debit affect users only while the page load, which makes it nearly un noticeable. Unfortunately, LAn party participant will notice it even more. IT seems that having more access point is a better solution than going for higher rate transfer.