Wireless PCI recommendations?

[Temlakos]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Neil Cherry wrote:
> 
>> Can someone recommend a wireless PCI card that does not need the
>> ndiswrapper? So far I have one PCI that require NDIS, one compact
>> PCI (Intel) that can't be load on an AMD machine (BIOS comes back
>> with an error), a Broadcom compact PCI that works with NDIS and 2
>> PCMCIA that need to use NDIS.
> 
> 
> atheros and it's madwifi driver.
> 
>> Thanks
>>
>>
> 

Understand that that means "any wireless PCI card that is built with an 
Atheros chipset." Always look at the technical specs of any peripheral 
card you buy. Netgear springs to mind--so long as they don't change 
chipsets.

Since installing a Netgear WAG-511 (with the Atheros chipset) into a 
Dell Inspiron 1200, and having excellent results with it and with the 
madwifi kernel module, I have become a firm believer in buying /only/ 
hardware whose makers are willing to conform to open standards or at 
least share enough information for someone to build a decent driver for 
it. I can understand, up to a point, having to deal with legacy 
equipment. But if you're buying new hardware, I advise: don't mess with 
hardware for which the Linux community can't build a native driver 
because of licensure considerations, hardware maker policies, or for 
whatever reason.

Ten years ago, someone started a movement for "open standards" for 
hardware. Does anyone know the status of that movement?

Temlakos