Wireless cards

[John Summerfied]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:34 -0700, jdow wrote:
> 
>>From: "John Summerfied" <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
>>
>>>I have a couple of Prism54 cards that work well.  Some (at least) 
>>>Atheros-based cards are fine, and I note d-link is now labelling its 
>>>product to indicate which use TI, which use Atheros.
>>
>>Um, do you have the Linux driver for those atheros chips or are you
>>using NDIS? And do you use WPA? My laptop will need to be WPA aware
>>with the D-Link Atheros chipset three band beastie. (At least it will
>>"someday.") I have the pieces. But it looks like I'll have to rebuild
>>the Atheros stuff I have with the WPA files as well. Poo what a (small)
>>annoyance.
> 
> 
>    Ya know, the way to sell cards of the vendors would be to suggest the
> ones that work w/o NDIS on this list....and every other Linux list you
> can find.

It's a moving target. I bought a couple of Netcomm (an Australian 
manufacturer/distributor) cards. However, their new cards have TI chips.


> 
>    Right now I couldn't possibly afford a laptop, but things can and
> will change...and I'd like to know ahead of time.  In short:
> 
>    What kind of wireless card (say, the basic 11mps type) should I buy?

I'd not buy an 11b card. Apart from speed, they don't do the latest 
security and WEP is inherently broken.

I think Centrino's okay, but you'd need to ask at the time.



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