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WLAN with SMC SMCWPCI-G

2006/05/01 filed under /linux

In the past, I didn't care about my home too much. Computers and wires everywhere. But now that I live in my new home, I think it'd be more appropriate to make it all look a little nicer (if only it was to prevent problems with my wife ;-)

So I started out with my WiFi LAN. As usually, I don't pay attention to hardware compatibility and my Linux system and so I ended up with the damned Linksys WRK54G. After that was fixed, I still encountered many problems. It usually happened when I'd be downloading some torrent. The D-Link AP would freak out and needed a reset. Not nice. Maybe my PCI card (D-Link DWL-G520+ using the acx module) was to blame?

Time for a change! And yes, I finally looked at the driver support, and computer stores in my vicinity. After some time of researching, the best I could easily get would be a SMC SMCWPCI-G.

This card contains an atheros chip and is supposed to work decent with the madwifi modules. After installing the card and modules, I got it working quite nice, although my connection wasn't as fast as I hoped it to be. This was easily fixed by the iwconfig command (`iwconfig ath0 rate 54M`).

Yay! Stable, somewhat fast, WLAN!

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Posted by: B10m | permanent link | comments (2)

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BOK wrote at 2006-05-03 20:44:

Do you know if this card will work in a FreeBSD-system? There's no such thing as iwconfig on my box (so far)...

I'm looking towards going WiFi too one of these ddays, but I [w|d]on't need a wireless router AFAIK.

B10m wrote at 2006-05-09 07:41:

Unfortunately, I only use FreeBSD on my server(s). Therefore I never have to mess with USB, FireWire, or WiFi with that OS ;)

I really wouldn't know if it'd work.

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