Is there any good CompactFlash WiFi cards with Linux drivers out there which is not going obsolete short term? -- Best Regards, Ulf Samuelsson This is intended to be my personal opinion which may, or may bot be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB

WiFi Compactflash card w Linux drivers?
Started by ●March 27, 2006
Reply by ●March 28, 20062006-03-28
Don't think so. CF is going away from PDAs, which is the market that drove this niche a couple of years ago. Today PDAs come with the wlan chipsets incorporated. Even wlan SDIO cards and USB dongles are a shaky market for devices, and companies are focusing on Windows (Pocket PC/CE/XPe). I used the Netgear MA201 for a project last year, which was the most Linux-friendly CF card I could find. It is getting very difficult to source now. I also tried a D-Link card but it was not very reliable under Linux. I don't know if this one is easy to get hold to. Is USB not an option for you? You can use something that uses the Ralink chips. I don't know if any company (in Asia, perhaps) is willing to continue manufacturing CF cards for M2M devices. Perhaps you can go through the WiFi Linux resources [http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/] and ask in the mailing lists. Regards. /"Time and again I tell myself I'll stay PabloBleyerKocik / clean tonight, but the little green wheels pablo / are following me. Oh no not again!" @bleyer.org / -- Ashes to ashes, David Bowie
