techSanctuary

After coming across the Seattle Wireless receive sensitivity and hardware comparison, I found THE 802.11b card to fill all of my needs. I was tempted by the Demarc and Senao cards, but NewEgg had the SMC EliteConnect card at the right price of $54. The SMC2532W-B uses the Prism2.5 chipset. The Seattle Wireless wiki claims some of them come in a Prism3 version, but mine works fine with the orinoco drivers. Even then, I don't know how to check which chipset it's using. The information from 'cardctl ident' may shed some light on this. Out of the box, this card does not work with pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-r2. This card is not in the included database. Running 'cardctl ident' gives me: If your card has a different manfid line, you may have one of the Prism3 cards I mentioned. We can easily add this card to the pcmcia-cs database by adding the following to /etc/pcmcia/smc.conf: Restart pcmcia: Insert/reinsert the card and the pcmcia service should pick it up properly. You can test to see if the card is recognized by running: Congrats, you now have one sweet wifi card!