[olug] Wireless Card Roll-call

Jay Swackhamer Jay at RebootTheUser.com
Tue Mar 29 23:45:34 UTC 2005


I've been putting in Netgear WG311 PCI cards in Myth Boxes for customers.
The drivers are not in the Kernel source tree, but nothing special to
install. They use the Atheros Chipset.

on gentoo
#emerge madwifi-driver madwifi-tools




> I would also like to know if there are some good 802.11g PCI cards
> that work well with Linux, since we're going to be setting up our new
> apartment with wireless and I'd rather not run cable to the mythtv
> box.
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:01:48 -0600 (CST), Jon H. Larsen
> <relayer at levania.org> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> Let's say I'm in the market for a good 802.11 wireless card, that meets
>> a
>> few stringent requirements:
>>
>> A) Driver included with Kernel 2.6.8 or higher (no wrappers, or
>> downloads)
>> B) PC Card should run at 3.3 volts (low power)
>>
>> While not a requirement, if it can be modified for an external antenna,
>> that's fine too.
>>
>> So, I'm asking for a roll-call of cards that you are currently using
>> with
>> Linux that work well and don't need tweaking (without all the hassles of
>> wrappers, wlan-ng or firmware downloads, etc).
>>
>> Please state if it's a PC Card (PCMCIA) or PCI card.
>>
>> Jon L.
>>
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