Intersil-based card - which driver to use?

[wanman]

I note the three main chipsets supported are Lucent, Cisco and Intersil. When setting ethernet settings, the device option only provides options for Lucent and Cisco but there does not seem to be an option for Intersil. Should I use Lucent instead? or is there a patch I need to install. btw I am trialling a Linksys WPC11 (not v2.5 or v3).

Thanks for any help you can provide.

Regards

Si

[diem]

Si,

The Intersil chipset is a 'clone' of Lucent, so go for that driver. I have to say I was very unimpressed with the Intersil card I tried (a Linksys WPC11) - the range was poor, it ate more power, couldn't do WEP, and is poorly supported by RFNetstat.

I notice there's a Lucent-based Enterasys Roamabout for sale in a new thread in this forum.... ;)

[benong]

Hi diem,

You mention:-

"I have to say I was very unimpressed with the Intersil card I tried (a Linksys WPC11) - the range was poor, it ate more power, couldn't do WEP, and is poorly supported by RFNetstat."

Do you mean to say WPC11 couldn't do WEP on netBook only but could do WEP in PCs?

I'm asking this because I tried WPC11 with WEP but got network error message. However the card worked perfectly well in notebook PC (accessing the same AP).

ben

[diem]

I didn't try the card in a PC (I don't have one with a PCMCIA slot) but I assume WEP works under Windows.

I guess when you're plugged into the mains and not roaming with respect to your access point then all my complaints about the card become irrelevant. Still I stand by the assertion that the implementation is poor, if not the chipset itself.