[wellylug] Wireless card that works with Debian

[Jonathan Harker]

JP wrote:
> All this talk about Cafe-Net has made me consider
> buying a PCMCIA wireless card for my laptop, which
> runs Debian Woody.
> 
> Does anybody know of a card that works without fuss on
> that distro?  I'm happy to load modules, but would
> prefer to avoid a kernel compile.
> 
> Preference for 802.11b/g, but I know I probably can't
> have everything.
> 
> Cheers
> Tony

I have a LevelOne PCI card with an Atheros chipset which does 11b and 11g, 
they do an otherwise identical PCcard version. Simple install, download the 
Madwifi kernel module and go make && make install on 2.4.x kernel, slight 
extra fiddle to get it to work on 2.6.x kernels. There is a Wiki with setup 
recipes for various distros.

HTH,
J