Linuxseekers

Pardus Kurulan 2007.2 (intallation CD)  was released recently and I managed to

test its support for a few popularly used notebook-based wlan cards :-

-Dell Inspiron 600m notebook.

  (with IPW2100 miniPCI Wlan card  and  Netgear WG511T pcmcia wlan card).

-Dell Inspiron 640m notebook.

  (with IPW3945 miniPCI wlan card  and  Dell 1490 miniPCI wlan card). 

-Compaq Presario V3222AU notebook.

  (with Dell 1390 miniPCI Wlan card).

For  your  information  the  IPW2100  and IPW3945  are  the popular  Intel centrino  chipset.

The Netgear  WG511T  pcmcia  wlan card comes  with  the  atheros chipset.  The Dell 1390

wlan card  and  the Dell 1490 wlan card  come with the  Broadcom's  bcm4311 chipset and

Broadcom's  bcm4312 chipset  respectively. 

I  managed  to get  these  5 wifi cards  connected  to my  Linksys router  via  the  WPA-PSK

encryption protocol out-of-the-box  with the help of the network manager. The connectivity

was  excellent.  Despite  still  using  the  softmac stack  instead of  the  devicescape  stack,

Pardus Kurulan  2007.2 (installation CD)  managed to conquer  all of these  notebook-based

wlan cards.

By Michael Shee Choon Beng.