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

[shivers90 <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Check this list:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

Look for a card supported in installed system and out
of the box.  I tried to get my usb netgear working
with ndiswrapper but the ubuntu's base wireless
software kept getting in the way, preventing
ndiswrapper from working.

Mark

--- Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

> The Asus motherboard we used on our Linux box has
> every feature known
> to man except for on-board wireless networking. To
> make a long story
> short, the place we want to put this box is a long
> way from where the
> router is (and kind of has to be).
> 
> One alternatives are to run about 50 feet around a
> corner, along the
> "baseboard" (actually a wall full of book cases),
> along some actual
> baseboard and then up and over a sliding door,
> around another corner,
> and into the box, and then pray that one or more
> cats do not decide it
> is a toy. (We rent, so doing a drop is not really an
> option here.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Does anybody have any recommendations here?
> 
> Thanks again for your help.
> 
> jking
> 
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