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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: <takis.issaris@uhasselt.be>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WLAN drivers
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 11:14:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060203111423.17275a33.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1138977902.23981.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>

On Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:35:30 +0000, Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> > And now the reason I'm sending this to this mailing list: Which wireless
> > network cards are you all using and which ones would you recommend? Is
> > anyone using USB wireless network cards (without using ndiswrapper)?
> 
> In my experience, you're simply best going to either http://prism54.org/ (if 
> you can find one still)

You can't get a fullmac card anymore, but softmac is still available
 http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/default.aspx?EDC=543916
It's a gen1, too.

> Keywords for _modern_ Linux supported wireless chipsets are still (to my 
> knowledge) atheros, atmel, prism54, and most recently broadcom, though that 
> support is currently immature.

Intel is the king, dude. Get a 2200. Uses in-tree drivers, too.

-- Pete

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-03 19:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-03 12:18 WLAN drivers Panagiotis Issaris
2006-02-03 12:35 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-03 18:06   ` Lee Revell
2006-02-03 18:18     ` Stephen Clark
2006-02-03 18:33       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-05  3:46       ` Luke-Jr
2006-02-03 19:14     ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-03 19:19       ` Joel Jaeggli
2006-02-03 19:35       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-03 18:44   ` Lee Revell
2006-02-03 14:24 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-02-03 18:49 ` Jan Kiszka
     [not found] ` <mailman.1138977902.23981.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2006-02-03 19:14   ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2006-02-03 19:22     ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-02-03 19:38       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-14 16:07     ` David Gómez
2006-02-03 19:32 ` Alessandro Suardi

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