[Gllug] 802.11b/g cards

[Leslie Till]

Huw Lynes wrote:

>I'm thinking of putting a linux box on our 802.11b/g network at home. It'll be
>a not-so-little storage server so it'll be a PCI wi-fi card not a PCMCIA one.
>
>I've done my bit of reading through
>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
>
>so far a straw poll of techies at work comes up with finding a supplier of
>buffalo 802.11b cards because they are guaranteed to work.
>
>However my wireless switch is b/g and I'd really like to be able to take
>advantage of the extra bandwidth.
>
>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?
>
>yours, stumbling around in the dark looking for the light switch,
>Huw
>
>  
>
I've just recently got a Linksys WMP54G/ also works with b.
This has a Broadcom chip and I had to use ndiswrapper to get it to work 
using the Windows driver. Don't know if all other manufacturers use the 
same chip.
Les.
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