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.