[ILUG] 3Com wireless PCMCIA card support/drivers

[Steven Satelle]

On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:00:33 +0000, Mark Woods <mwoods at online.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know if the 3Com OfficeConnect 11g Wireless PCMCIA card with
> XJack antenna [1] will work with Linux (kernel 2.6.9) and if there are
> drivers available somewhere? I've had a google and also searched both
> linuxquestions.org and linuxcompatible.org and have come up with nada.
> 
> I can find drivers for some older 3Com wireless cards at
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~bvermeul/swallow/, but I'm not sure if the one I'm
> looking to buy is based on the same chipset, so I don't know if the drivers
> will work.
> 
I have a 3com officeConnect 11g pcmcia nic, and it works ok on fedora
& debian. It uses the prism64 driver which you cant get at
http://prism54.org/
There is an annoying bug in it, or was a couple of months ago, where
the nic drops the network randomly and only comes back up when you
ifconfig down/up the card. Only annoying if you kick off a large
download and leave it for a few hours :-)
I think the bug was fixed in the CVS release when I last looked in
January, but my nic broke and I only got it back last week, I just
haven't been bothered to set it again up since I'm using the wired lan
at the mo and it does what i need