[Klug-general] Wifi drivers

[Twigathy]

I [fairly recently] bought a high-power USB wifi card - made by a
company called Alfa network. It's *incredible!* picks up wifi networks
halfway down the street....

Anyway, it uses a realtek chip of some kind, again in the kernel and
no fussing about needed to get it to work :)

T

On 21/07/2009, MacGyveR <macgyver at thedumbterminal.co.uk> wrote:
> Just thought I'd share some troubles I have been having lately:
>
> I always buy atheros based wifi cards and in the past have used the madwifi
> drivers which i have had no problems with:
>
> http://madwifi-project.org
>
> There are some new drivers which also support alot of the atheros
> cards "ath5k" and "ath9k" which are now built into the kernel so no need for
> an external package, I havent got a card that is supported by the ath9k so I
> cant say anything about that. The ath5k seems to work fine at first, when
> doing a constant data transfer, the speed is variable and mainly poor, you
> won't notice this through normal browsing. I also experienced up to 10%
> packet loss at some times, this all drives you mad if you are using something
> like X11 forwarding.
>
> But going back to using madwifi things operate normally.
>
> Also if you can't find a good desktop PCI wifi card, just get a mini-PCI ->
> PCI adaptor from ebay and stick a laptop one in
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
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