[SWLUG] Re: Ubuntu - the fixings

[Steve Hill]

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On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Gareth Bowker wrote:

> Google will probably give you the answers you're after here about the
> generalities. regarding WiFi PCI cards, again, use google to check
> they're supported by Linux.

The Linux-wlan pages are a good place to find info about which chipsets 
are in which wifi cards:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

When I last had to buy 802.11g kit I found it fairly difficult to get hold 
of supported hardware.  I'd recommend hardware supported by the Prism54 
drivers but it's difficult to be sure of getting supported hardware since 
the manufacturers have a habit of changing chipsets without changing the 
model numbers of the cards, so I'd stear clear of that.  I understand the 
cards supported by the madwifi driver are well supported and reasonably 
easy to get hold of though though and at worst case you could use 
ndiswrapper to drive a lot of the unsupported cards.

  - Steve    XMPP/Jabber: steve at nexusuk.org    Web: http://www.nexusuk.org/

      Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence

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