Re: What wireless PCI card to buy ???
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Joe Potter wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> What wireless card should one buy so that it works out of the box?
have $$$ and laptop/pc ready when you got to the store :-)
- see what the dude next to you is using
- buy the system preconfigured ( guranteed to work if its built right )
- give the wireless card and your laptop to the local pc gorilla and
tell um to make it work
- note.. using the same foo-manufacturer's Model 10,000 will not
guarantee that "out of the box" will work, even if your buddy insists
it worked for them, because "foo" manufacturers will change the
chipset on the Model 10,000 wireless widgets every few weeks/months
- if you are building a wireless AP ..
- you'd use a pci card that supports wep/wpa
- hostap ( prism54 ) drivers are the only ones support
wpa
- madwifi supports wpa as a client only, but works great
for wep-enabled ap's
- if you're building a wireless client...
- you'd use any pci card, and not worry about gazillion
features and problems
- even broadcom chipsets have a 50/50 chance of working
with ndiswrapper under any linux box
- ndiswrapper will not support master mode, wpa, ...
> One
> that you can get in the USA at a large store? One for my desktop box
> that works well with Sarge?
stay away from anything that does NOT specify which chipset it uses
some willl say "linux supported" .. 95% will not
> Ideas?
see the list of compatible cards for each of the drivers
http://Linux-Wireless.org/Drivers
google: wireless pci card
wireless usb device
...
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when you find one that works ... let the folks that maintain teh drivers
know so they can update their list of tested/supported devices
c ya
alvin
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