[GLLUG] pci wireless adapter

[Karl Schuttler]

A large handful of cards use madwifi drivers, and chances are that if
you have a live cd, madwifi is on that too.

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Michael George <george at idealso.com> wrote:
>
>  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
>  >>
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