actually it's built in, I was just referring to someones comment to stay away from the broadcom chipset.  If I were in your shoes I'd try and find an atheros chipset card.  the latest BSD, and linux kernel supports ahteros extremely well. <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael George <<a href="mailto:george@idealso.com">george@idealso.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> That's probably a pcmcia card though, right?  I'd prefer just having a single card to put into a desktop machine and not have to get the pci -> pcmcia adapter and then a pcmcia card. <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> On Fri, April 4, 2008 1:48 pm, Craig Weaver wrote: > Ubuntu found and set up my broadcom based wireless card in my laptop just > fine as 7.04.  No more ndiswrapper for me. > > > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Michael George <<a href="mailto:george@idealso.com">george@idealso.com</a>> wrote: > >> On Fri, April 4, 2008 1:14 pm, pdwald wrote: >> > You should look for any pci card that has the atheros chipsets. They >> > seem to have very good support on Linux via the madwifi project (which >> > has branched out to the ath5k because of the proprietary HAL -- >> > Hardware Abstractio Lawer -- used in the madwifi). All in all, it >> > seems to works very well, and supports even advanced features/modes >> > such as putting the wlan device into promiscuous mode. >> >> So if the madwifi driver uses a proprietary HAL, is it already included >> in >> the Linux kernel?  And is it included in various LiveCD's? >> >> > On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Michael George <<a href="mailto:george@idealso.com">george@idealso.com</a>> >> wrote: >> >> Which PCI wireless NICs are quite reliable and almost-always-work >> with >> >>  Linux?  I want to put a terminal in a part of the house where I >> don't >> >> have >> >>  wiring and one of the methods I want to try is a linux distro on CD >> or >> >> USB >> >>  that can just boot and point to my LTSP server.  So I need a NIC >> that >> >> will >> >>  be readily supported by a small distro and give decent throughput. >> >> >> >>  I always get great info and opinions from this group, so I'm picking >> >> your >> >>  brains again... :) >> >> >> >>  -Michael George >> >>  _______________________________________________ >> >>  linux-user mailing list >> >>  <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> >> >>  <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > linux-user mailing list >> > <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> >> > <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> >> > >> >> >> -Michael George >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-user mailing list >> <a href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a> >> <a href="http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user" target="_blank">http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user</a> >> > </div></div>-Michael George </blockquote></div>