[Gllug] 802.11b/g cards

[Doug Winter]

Huw Lynes wrote:
> This
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#acx100
> suggests that ALL the current 802.11b/g cards use the same chipset, and that
> it works with linux.
> 
> Have I got that right? Can I reasonable expect to buy any b/g card and get it
> to work?

I don't think so, but I am no expert.  When I was looking for 802.11g 
cards previously, I found a whole number with various chipsets some of 
which weren't supported.  The Broadcom one is, but using ndiswrapper 
which I didn't like the sound of.

I can however confirm that the madwifi drivers:

     http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi/

work fine with the netgear Atheros based cards like the WG511T, and that 
these perform very well indeed.  Although the drivers come straight from 
CVS it builds and runs easily, even on my 64-bit system.

there's a closed source bit to the driver though, which is most annoying.

doug.

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