From: Wolfgang Wegner <ww@kt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: Jules Kongslie <chatos@omgwallhack.org>
Cc: Karen Shaeffer <shaeffer@neuralscape.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:06:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021120230655.A5805@bigmac.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037826932.7092.6.camel@cassius.omgwallhack.org>
Hi,
concerning all intersil-based cards, the linux-wlan-ng driver seems much
more efficient than the in-kernel or pcmcia-cs code. However, linux-wlan-ng
supports only prism cards.
In general, if you have a low-performance machine, go for a real PCI card
(like one of those mini-pci boards on a pci adaptor card, like the Tekram
PC-400 or what it's name is). The pcmcia cards (at least those non-cardbus,
i did not have my hands on a cardbus card yet) impose a great load on the
machine for transferring the data over the "ISA" bus.
(That's another big problem of the in-kernel and pcmcia-cs "orinoco" drivers:
for full-size packets, interrupts are blocked for almost 1ms for every
packet. Not a problem on a GHz machine, but ugly on a 75MHz pentium 8) )
Regards,
Wolfgang
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-20 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-19 23:30 Karen Shaeffer
2002-11-20 21:15 ` Jules Kongslie
2002-11-20 22:06 ` Wolfgang Wegner [this message]
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