[GLLUG] pci wireless adapter

[Craig Weaver]

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.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael George <george at idealso.com> wrote:

> 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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>
> -Michael George
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