[wellylug] native 802.11g PCMCIA cards?

[Grant McLean]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 20:55 +1300, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I'm running Kubuntu 8.04.1 on my machines.  Can anyone tell me what
> PCMCIA cards I can get that use native Linux drivers as opposed to
> ndiswrapper?  I mean cards I can get in NZ, although I suppose I could
> buy some overseas and have them shipped if that's the way to get the
> ones with the best support.

I've had good experiences with the Ralink rt2500 chipset.  There's a GPL
driver that should be standard with most distros (certainly works with
Ubuntu).  The driver also directly supports WPA so no need to mess
around with the supplicant stuff.

The specific card I have is a Level One WPC-0301 which I bought from
Ascent (ItemID=200410).  I have heard that recent models from the same 
manufacturer use the rt61 chipset and it works easily too.

The only one I've had a bad experience with was a netgear card.  It
almost certainly would have worked with NDIS wrappers but frankly I
couldn't be bothered.

Cheers
Grant