[GLLUG] pci wireless adapter

[Craig Weaver]

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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