Re: Wireless card...

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Martin Fluch wrote:

> Hi Finnish friends!
> 
> A friend of mine who got an wireless access point and would like to
> connect his desktop PC (running under Debian) to it. But I have a bit
> problem to decide which wireless PCI cards offered at Verkokauppa are
> supported by the most current linux kernels. Anyone with experience?

buy a cisco card ( not linksys ) or atheros chipset based or prism54 based

for a list of cards or drivers in the kernel

	{/usr/local/src}/linux-2.4.31//drivers/net/wireless/

if you use a usb wifi stick .. it can be used on laptops too

if you want wpa with your ap .. you're on the bleeding edge

c ya
alvin