wireless pci cards

[Scott Howell]

Thanks for the info. I might just stick with the wired card for now  
just based on the cost of the cards in general and the router I chose  
will do fine less the cost of teh card.


Scott



On Feb 23, 2006, at 9:44 PM, Garrett Klein wrote:

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> There is a driver for the Atheros "multiband" chips, http:// 
> madwifi.sourceforge.net. The Proxim Orinoco A/B/G PCI Combo Card  
> (8482 comes to mind for the model number) uses this chipset. HTH.
>
> Garrett
>
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 09:33:13PM -0500, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
>> Hi Scott,
>>
>> 	There are a number of wireless cards that work under Linux...  
>> more B than G cards it seems.
>>
>> 	I have been using a Prism 2.5 based card from InterSil (sp?).  
>> Originally I got the drivers from AbsoluteValue systems, gpl-ed,  
>> but now the drivers are included in the 2.6 kernels for Wireless-B.
>>
>> 	If you want a wireless-g card, the scene is a little more  
>> challenging. From what I've read, there are a few chipsets  
>> (Broadcom, TI ACX and Atheros) that are kind of supported using an  
>> ndiswrapper from sourceforge, and the Windows driver for the card.  
>> These cards do not, as far as I can determine, have a native linux  
>> driver.
>>
>> 	Intersil is following their policy fromthe earlier Prism 2, 2.5  
>> and 3.0 series, of making their specs available for the Prism54  
>> chips, so that there are gpl-ed, native linux drivers available  
>> for this wireless-g series of chips, but at least at this time  
>> they are only available from the Prism54 group... not in the linux  
>> kernel source.
>>
>> 	I found this link to be helpful:
>>
>> http://www.pardus-wiki.org/index.php/Ndiswrapper_Kart_Listesi
>>
>> 	It gives a list of cards and the chipset that each uses. Beware,  
>> they are NOT all supported in linux. Some are natively, some are  
>> with the ndiswrapper and others are better left alone.
>>
>> 	Know what you are getting and if/how well it is supported,before  
>> you buy. Don't take my word on this... I could be misunderstanding  
>> something, and thigs are changing rapidly in this area.
>>
>> 	HTH,
>>
>> 	--terry
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 05:43:12PM -0500, Scott Howell wrote:
>>> Folks, just wanted to know what wireless cards which are pci-based
>>> are known to work. I wanted to know from personal experience as I
>>> need one for a desktop machine.
>>>
>>> tnx
>>>
>>> Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
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