I think that most pcmcia netgear cards have an atheros chipset. which uses madwifi. but I don't know if this applies to pci as well.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Charles Ulrich
</b> <<a href="mailto:charles@idealso.com">charles@idealso.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Benjamin Cathey wrote:
<br>> I need to get a wireless PCI card for a desktop that will be running<br>> debian. I thought I'd post to see what experiences people have had<br>> before I buy. I have personnally always tried to stick to linksys when
<br>> I can as I like the interface on the routers. Also I have been able to<br>> get the PCMCIA cards to work pretty well in Deb Sarge.<br>><br>> I read the the netgear WPN311NA works pretty well too. I am currently
<br>> look at the WPN311NA or the Linksys WMP54GS. We will be purchasing<br>> through an online company that we have a corporate acct. through and I<br>> would like to get something that works (don't want to have to return by
<br>> mail.)<br>><br>> Any stories, suggestions?<br><br>I'm also in the market for a wifi PCI card, but haven't yet found one<br>with native Linux drivers. I was able to find several references saying<br>that the Linksys card works only with ndiswrapper. (No native drivers.)
<br>I couldn't find any information at all on the Netgear card. The reason<br>I'm so set on native drivers because driver support via ndiswrapper is<br>often a tricky situation. Sometimes you can't get encryption or 802.11g
<br>speeds with it, and if something doesn't work, there's not much that you<br>can do to even troubleshoot it since the drivers are closed windows<br>binaries. It would be awesome if there was a PCI card that used the open
<br>source madwifi drivers.<br><br>Let me know how this pans out. If you find a card that has native Linux<br>drivers or if you're able to get ndiswrapper working, maybe I'll yet<br>consider going that route if it looks like WPA2 will work with it.
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