[Gllug] wifi card

[Mike Brodbelt]

Peter Grandi wrote:

> But fortunately I have written a guide with pointers here:
> 
>   http://WWW.sabi.co.UK/Notes/linuxWiFi.html
> 
> In particular look at the "Well known drivers and their
> chipsets" section.


Can I suggest an addition to your guide:-

"The madwifi driver
    This driver supports many Atheros chipsets for 54g/11b operation."

You should add to that paragraph that madwifi drivers taint the kernel,
as they include a proprietary HAL, and that they also don't work at all
(for at least some chipsets, and as far as I know for all) in ad-hoc mode.

Anyone wanting to build wireless router type things (as opposed to
adding wireless to an existing Linux system) would be well advised to
have a look at OpenBSD. From what I hear, they have far better support
for wireless stuff than Linux, where things can kindly be referred to as
a disaster area.

Mike.
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