Alvin Oga wrote:
On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
I'm seeking recommendations for currently-available 802.11g-compliant Wireless PCI cards for Linux.
Please post replies to the list so others can critique them and benefit from them.
I wish native drivers, not Windows wrapped in something such as ndiswrapper.
i'm using the Netgear WG311 w/ madwifi drivers and the Linksys WMP54g ( buffalo airstation ) w/ ndiswrapper
and am currently trying to get madwifi to support wpa instead of wep
other wifi drivers Linux-Wireless.org/Drivers
c ya alvin
Thanks Alvin for your reply.
Here's why I asked for so much detail: According to http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php,
"There seems to be a few versions of the WG311 cards. One is reported to have the Atheros chipset, the other the TI. "
It is common for manufacturers to sell revisions of a wireless card using different chipsets: Netgear does it, dlink does it (six versions of one card according to one retailer), SMC/ACCTON does it.
ndiswrapper isn't a wireless driver, it's a wrapper to allow the use of Windows NDIS drivers. I'd use it in the case I have a card I can't user otherwise, but I won't wittingly buy a card that requires it.
I'm looking at the website, but it will take longer than I want to spend right now. Thanks for the pointer.
Note that the prsm54 folk have some doubts about the Netgear card. Also, I'm specifically looking for 11g-capable devices.
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