[wellylug] USB or PCI Wifi Adapter

[Tim O'Brien]

I know its hard to find what chipsets are in products, there are some
suggestions here:

http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html

So can any one tell me if they got lucky and buy a Wifi card or USB
adapter with an open source driver available?

Tim

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Bruce Hoult <bruce at hoult.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Tim O'Brien <timalot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What model of Wifi adapted (USB/PCI) should I buy for my desktop GNU/Linux PC?
>
> It's very hard to give a definitive answer, as manufacturers change
> chipsets at will, even without changing the model number or any other
> product description.  Linux support for various chipsets is no doubt
> getting better, but as I understand it the situation is still that
> unless 1) you're using x86 AND 2) you're prepared to steal drivers
> from Windows then you still have to be pretty careful which adaptors
> you buy.
>
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