[ale] Most popular, reliable, fair-valued PCI wireless card?

[Steve Hamlin]

Rule #1 - it's the chipset (and often revision) that matters, not the name
on the box.  A huge list of resources - cards, chipsets, linux
drivers/support status, support :

"Wireless LAN resources for Linux":
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

"In the past, most of the "generic" brands selling 802.11b cards were using
the Intersil PrismII chipset, which is well supported under Linux (various
drivers), so it was not a problem. A lot of them have recently moved to
non-supported chipset. Plain 802.11g cards are nowadays usually supported,
but in most case require work to get the driver going. Laptop with Intel
Centrino cards are a very good choice. It's usually easy to identify Atheros
cards, they usually advertise SuperG and 108 Mb/s. Pre-802.11n cards are
usually not supported."

---down the page---
"Atheros was the first company to release a complete 802.11a solution, and
therefore most existing products are based on it. Proxim was the first
company releasing products based on the Atheros chipset, but other familiar
names such as Linksys, D-Link and SMC did follow quickly."

It looks like there is now a stable driver in the kernel.org sources for
several Intel wireless chips.


Good luck!

 - Steve


On 10/30/07, John Caruso <jcaruso4 at csc.com> wrote:
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