[GLLUG] pci wireless adapter

[Michael George]

On Fri, April 4, 2008 2:25 pm, Craig Weaver wrote:
> 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.

According to http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_hostif.php?hostif=PCI the
atheros chipset uses the madwifi driver.  Though maybe that is out of
date...

> 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