Ubuntu found and set up my broadcom based wireless card in my laptop just fine as 7.04.  No more ndiswrapper for me.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Michael George <<a href="mailto:george@idealso.com">george@idealso.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, April 4, 2008 1:14 pm, pdwald wrote:<br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">> You should look for any pci card that has the atheros chipsets. They<br> > seem to have very good support on Linux via the madwifi project (which<br> > has branched out to the ath5k because of the proprietary HAL --<br> > Hardware Abstractio Lawer -- used in the madwifi). All in all, it<br> > seems to works very well, and supports even advanced features/modes<br> > such as putting the wlan device into promiscuous mode.<br> <br> </div><div class="Ih2E3d">So if the madwifi driver uses a proprietary HAL, is it already included in<br> the Linux kernel?  And is it included in various LiveCD's?<br> <br> </div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Michael George <<a href="mailto:george@idealso.com">george@idealso.com</a>> wrote:<br> >> Which PCI wireless NICs are quite reliable and almost-always-work with<br> >>  Linux?  I want to put a terminal in a part of the house where I don't<br> >> have<br> >>  wiring and one of the methods I want to try is a linux distro on CD or<br> >> USB<br> >>  that can just boot and point to my LTSP server.  So I need a NIC that<br> >> will<br> >>  be readily supported by a small distro and give decent throughput.<br> >><br> >>  I always get great info and opinions from this group, so I'm picking<br> >> your<br> >>  brains again... :)<br> >><br> >>  -Michael George<br> >>  _______________________________________________<br> >>  linux-user mailing list<br> >>  <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br> >>  <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br> >><br> > _______________________________________________<br> > linux-user mailing list<br> > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br> ><br> <br> <br> -Michael George<br> _______________________________________________<br> linux-user mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a><br> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>