Wireless gear on the Romanian market

Hello,

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am making constant efforts to help Linux development by other means (especially beta-testing and marketing).

I've recently made some systematic inquiries in the largest computer stores in Romania, looking after wireless gear and its Linux support (especially draft-N).

Here's what I've found:

SMC USB cards
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=5&scid=117&pid=1636
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=5&scid=117&pid=1645

SMC PCMCIA cards
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=5&scid=117&pid=1590
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&cid=5&scid=117&pid=1673

D-Link USB cards
http://www.d-link.no/?go=gNTyP9CgrdFOIC4AStFCF834mptYKO9ZTdvhLPG3yV3oUop7hqltbNlwaaFp6DQoHDrpzyRC944ABd3h

D-Link PCMCIA cards
http://www.d-link.no/?go=jN7uAYLx/oIJaWVUDLYZU93ygJVYKuJXStvhLPG3yV3oV4B6galtbNlwaaRp+X19Vnq1zitUvt1LVILi0KfkPk8Ztu3RboK2GNQ=
http://www.d-link.no/?go=jN7uAYLx/oIJaWVUDLYZU93ygJVYKuJXStvhLPG3yV3oVYx+galtbNlwaaRp+X19Vnq1zitUvt1LVILi0KfkPk0YsOLZa4G0HNc=

D-Link PCI cards
http://www.d-link.no/?go=jN7uAYLx/oIJaWVUDLYZU93ygJVYKuJXStvhLPG3yV3oWIt9hqltbNlwaaRp+X19Vnq1zitUvt1LVILi0KfkPk8Rte3cb4W1FdQ=
http://www.d-link.no/?go=jN7uAYLx/oIJaWVUDLYZU93ygJVYKuJXStvhLPG3yV3oV415jqltbNlwaaRp+X19Vnq1zitUvt1LVILi0KfkPk0ZuOjaZ4a+HdY=
http://www.d-link.no/?go=jN7uAYLx/oIJaWVUDLYZU93ygJVYKuJXStvhLPG3yV3oVYx+gKltbNlwaaRp+X19Vnq1zitUvt1LVILi0KfkPkwTtezbaI60Hto=

Belkin PCI cards
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=273535
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=179458

Belkin USB cards
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=299142
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=372137

Belkin PCMCIA cards
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=273544
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=299617
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=372032
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=372146
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=203586

TrendNet USB cards
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=155_TEW-644UB&cat=42
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=135_TEW-444UB&cat=42
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=150_TEW-429UF&cat=42

TrendNet PCI cards
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=140_TEW-623PI&cat=42
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=165_TEW-643PI&cat=42

TrendNet PCMCIA cards
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=160_TEW-641PC&cat=42
http://trendnet.com/langen/products/proddetail.asp?prod=135_TEW-621PC&cat=42

Now, please, is it possible to find out which of these products are supported in Linux (or will be in the foreseable future) ? This information is critical to Romanian Linux users, as well as others...

Thanks A LOT,
Răzvan

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There's information on this on http://wireless.kernel.org/ and if you post the chipsets the devices use we can tell you whether we support them or not. But I doubt anyone will go to the trouble and researching the manufacturers for you.

johannes

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It should be possible to find Windows drivers for the devices, unpack them and identify what chipsets they are for. It may happen that different revisions of the same hardware use different chipsets, so be sure to check all of the revisions.

The unpacking can be done by running installers in wine or by using popular archive programs, such as cabextract, unshield, unzip, unrar an= d
lha. Identification of the driver can be done by looking into *.inf files or by using the "strings" command on the *.sys files.

As for the draft 802.11n devices, Intel and Atheros chipsets are currently supported, except Atheros USB (the work on it is underway).

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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