Re: Wlan adapter

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>]

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:27:46 +0100
Thomas Ruschival <t.ruschival@vivid-md.de> wrote:

> I like to buy a 54 Mbit PCI-Wlan card for my PC, I googled a bit
> through the internet and discovered that most Cards are only supported
> through Ndiswrapper. What is a good, cheap naively supported adapter?
> I know there are Atmel and Prism chipsets that are supported,
> unfortunately most resellers don't tell in their internetshops what
> chipset is on the Card.
> 
> How about htis NDISwrapper thing. As far as I understand it uses the
> MS-windows drivers under linux, please give me some recommendations if
> this is good or if I should rather use natively supported cards.

At least some of the Netgear WG511's appear to use a prism54 compatible
chipset. Be careful though; I've not found their wireless routers to be
that great.

HTH,
Jacob