[GLLUG] pci wireless adapter

[Michael George]

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.

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 <george at idealso.com> 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 <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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