WiFi PCI cards?

[Patrick]

On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 05:51 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Did some googling but mostly found laptop related WiFi posts and info.
> > Anyone know (where to find a list of) WiFi PCI cards for in a normal PC
> > that are compatible out of the box with FC4 and Hostap (preferrably non
> > ndiswrapper and linuxant)?
> 
> I don't know that a current list exists.
> 
> 
> I download the windows drivers and inspect the package to see what's 
> inside the package; it tells me what chipset's used.
> 
> I have two prism54-based cards, those work well.
> My laptop has Atheros inside; that's fine and SUSE & Ubuntu support it 
> out of the box; on FC you might need to build a driver, but it's not 
> hard if you are into that sort of thing.
> 
> TI and Broadcom I avoid.
> 
> Note:
> D-link labels some of its products to tell you what's inside; it uses 
> both TI and Atheros,
> 
> I researched some TP-Links cards yesterday, the ones I found have Atheros.
> 
> Sometimes the packaging can give clues, some of the terms used are (I 
> think) trademarks, so if you find two brands of card using the same 
> funny capitilsation or made-up words they likely use the same chipset.

Thanks for the tips John. Very useful.

Regards,
Patrick