[wellylug] wlan adapter recommendations

[Andrew Tarr]

On Mon Nov 15  4:24 , Andrew Tarr <andrewtarr at webmails.com> sent:

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>Hi, chaps. 
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>I was wondering whether anyone can recommend a good wifi card for linux.  In particular, does anyone have any comment on the card 
>available in Dick Smith's, which appears to do 802.11 a/b/g , claims to support linux 2.4 and 2.6 (but only in something called 'infrastructure 
>mode') and is priced at $124 or so, which strikes me as very reasonable?

Oh, to be a little more specific, I can't find any details on the chipset in question, either on the back of the box or on the website.   I have 
heard that sometimes things which claim to support linux (and I seem to recall this with regard to DSE) have a binary-only driver which doesn't 
do everything you'd like and only works with one kernel version, so I'd prefer getting something that has an open-source driver maintained by 
the kernel team, which would hopefully mean that such a card would enjoy ongoing support in Linux. 

Andrew. 

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