[wellylug] Looking for a wireless network card

[jon at jon.geek.nz]

On 26/5/2006, "Martin Wehipeihana" <martin at suzig.com> wrote:
>Martin Wehipeihana wrote:
>> any suggestions
>> prefer to buy local
>>
>Doh ... should have added pcmcia for my lappy

Presumably you mean one that works well in Linux... :)

I've never had too much problem with Atheros chipsets - these are
handled by the madwifi driver which has been folded into most recent
distributions.

Beware of Broadcom chipsets (from bitter experience) - they work, but
usually only by using ndiswrapper and appropriate Win32 drivers... a
PITA to set up and not exactly ideal even when it is working.

It also depends which distro you're running. After faffing with wireless
support in RHEL4, Fedora 4 and 5, Suse 10 and Ubuntu Dapper, I have to
say that Suse and Ubuntu are both far ahead of the others.

There is a pretty good low-down on Linux supported WiFi hardware here -
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

J