Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual page 548

Name
802.11g
Additionally, there are proprietary standards, like the 802.11b variation of Texas Instru-
ments with a maximum transmission rate of 22 MBit/s (sometimes referred to as
802.11b+). However, the popularity of cards using this standard is limited.
30.1.1 Hardware
802.11 cards are not supported by SUSE® Linux Enterprise. Most cards using 802.11a,
802.11b, and 802.11g are supported. New cards usually comply with the 802.11g
standard, but cards using 802.11b are still available. Normally, cards with the following
chips are supported:
• Aironet 4500, 4800
• Atheros 5210, 5211, 5212
• Atmel at76c502, at76c503, at76c504, at76c506
• Intel PRO/Wireless 2100, 2200BG, 2915ABG
• Intersil Prism2/2.5/3
• Intersil PrismGT
• Lucent/Agere Hermes
• Ralink RT2400, RT2500
• Texas Instruments ACX100, ACX111
• ZyDAS zd1201
A number of older cards that are rarely used and no longer available are also supported.
An extensive list of WLAN cards and the chips they use is available at the Web site of
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Band (GHz) Maximum Trans-
mission Rate
(MBit/s)
2.4 54
Note
Backward-compatible with
11b