On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:10:56 +0200 Gyorgy Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Glen Yu írta: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm going to be housemates with a co-worker of mine and he uses an Apple > > wireless router which allows him to send songs to his speakers via iTunes. > > > > Anyhow, the router has no ethernet ports so I'm going to need to get a > > wireless PCI card for my PC. I was just wondering if anyone here uses > > wireless PCI and what's good to use with Debian Etch. I was looking at > > the D-Link WDA-2320 RangeBooster G Desktop Adapter -- does anyone have > > problems with that? > > > > > > If you have any recommendations on PCI or even USB wireless adapters > > that will work well with Debian Etch, please let me know. Thanks! > > > > > > Cheers, > > -Glen > > Hello, > > I can recommend you: > - SiS163u based wifi devices (for example: KWG-3000 USB 2.0 adapter) -> > ndiswrapper + win32 driver > - Broadcom based devices (I'm using Broadcom 4306 with the free bcm43xx > driver, this driver can only work at 11 mbit/s, but ndiswrapper+win32 > driver gives 54 mbps). > > There two chips were extensively used by me under Linux. > I'm using Broadcom 4306 (miniPCI in a laptop) now, without errors. Any Atheros-based PCI or PCMCIA card (NOT USB). My laptop has a Broadcom 4318; it works with the native (reverse-engineered) bcm43xx driver and (with what feels like better performance) ndiswrapper, but I still prefer Atheros hardware. Madwifi was designed with the company's cooperation, not via reverse-engineering, it has excellent documentation, and it works very well. [You do have to tolerate a non-free HAL]. I've used a Trendware TEW-443PI for years with excellent results, and more recently an Airnet card with no complaints (about the hardware; the company failed to honor a rebate submission). Just look for cards advertising 108MB; you don't have to use that Atheros proprietary extension to the 802.11g standard, but it's a trivial and foolproof way of locating Atheros gear. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator
