[GLLUG] pci wireless adapter

[Michael George]

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 <george at idealso.com> 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
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