[Lancaster] A good wireless PCI card

[Rene Mayrhofer]

And I can recommend any card based on the Atheros chipset - it's already well 
supported by the madwifi driver (and there will soon be a GPLed HAL layer for 
it). 802.11a/b/g, access point mode and very nice when monitoring.

Rene

Am Monday 03 April 2006 23:55 schrieb Ken Hough:
> 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
>
> Martyn Welch wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've been trying to get hold of a well supported wireless PCI card for a
> > number of weeks now, with little success. Wireless cards seem to be one
> > of those classes of hardware where good support is only available /after/
> > the shops have stopped selling the device! Either that or after a
> > revision change, it still surprises me that hardware manufacturers will
> > completely change the device and just continue using the same part
> > number!
> >
> > Then I found this:
> >
> > http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/
> >
> > I bought one of the PCI cards. It turned up extremely quickly - over the
> > weekend. Though requiring a 32bit PCI slot (luckily the aging PC I wanted
> > to install one of these cards in did!), it was detected straight away by
> > Ubuntu as it should.
> >
> > Linux Emporium even include their own CD with the drivers on just in
> > case!
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> >
> >
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