Re: [MLUG] recommended Linux-friendly PCI or USB wireless adapter?

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/3/07, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Mark Rages wrote:
> > On 5/3/07, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> >> The other alternative is to find a robustly supported wireless card
> >> for the linux box (and its AMD64 kernel) that works well with Ubuntu
> >> 7.04. A USB 2.0 dongle thing would be okay, if any of those usually
> >> work with Linux, else we have PCI slots to work with (or even an extra
> >> firewire port, for that matter.
> >>
> >
> > Good luck finding a Linux-supported wireless card.  I drove all over
> > town once looking for one.  You'll probably end up with a PCMCIA
> > adapter and a laptop wireless card.
> >
> > The other other alternative is a short network cable to a wireless
> > bridge.  The better consumer routers can operate in this mode.  I'm
> > using a little dedicated bridge on my print server, the D-Link
> > DWL-800AP+.  It works, but I don't recommend this device.  The
> > firmware is lousy.
>
> I guess I had a different experience, at least wih FreeBSD.  They list
> all the supported cards on their web site, and the few I tried worked
> just fine.  But FreeBSD also comes with the ndis driver which in many
> cases allows FreeBSD to connect with the windows network driver.  I use
> this extremely successfully with my internal wireless card on my dell
> laptop.
>
> Now if FreeBSD does it, I would be certain that Linux does it, because
> Linux tends to have better hardware support.  For example, I think this
> ndis thingy was originally a Linux thing.  Yes, this is it -
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
>
> Anyway, a google search picks up quite a few hits for linux compatible
> wireless cards.
>
> Stephen

I've used (an early version of) NDIS before.  It works, but is
painful, and the drivers are never as good as open-source drivers.  I
didn't suggest it because I'm not sure it will work in non-i386
systems.

Regards,
Mark
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