[Lancaster] A good wireless PCI card

[Martyn Welch]

Funnily enough, one of the cards I got hold of (and in this case returned) was 
a netgear (WG311 I think). Early revisions of this card used the atheros 
chipset, which is well supported natively under Linux. Unfortunately later 
revisions don't use this chipset and thus require the use of ndiswrapper 
(this allows the windows drivers to be used under linux).

Though I'm not a huge fan of this approach, I think that the manufacturers 
should provide decent support. In this case I needed a card that Rene had 
either already provided support for in Gibraltar (http://www.gibraltar.at/) 
or wouldn't be a pig for him to add (thanks Rene for your help). So I voted 
with my money and sent the netgear back and got a card that the chip 
manufacturers were actively helping to provide a native linux driver for. 

Martyn

On Monday 03 April 2006 23:55, Ken Hough wrote:
> I have a Netgear PCMCIA wi-fi card (WG511T) which was easy to set up and
> works well under SuSE Linux v9.1. It gives me 802.11g without trouble.
> No extra drivers needed.
>
> I guess that the equivalent PCI card would do the same.
>
> Ken
>
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Martyn Welch (welchm at comp.lancs.ac.uk)

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