[LUGSB] Wireless card

[Ilya Sukhanov (dotCOMmie)]

On 2/7/2007, "William Joseph Lahti" <wlahti at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:

>Avishay,
>
>Have you tried working with ndiswrapper to get your current wireless to
>work?

Ndiswrapper is evil and should be avoided at all costs.

>What's the model of your card. Somebody could probably help you at
>the next meeting.
>
>William Lahti
>
>On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Avishay Traeger wrote:
>
>> I've pretty much given up hope on getting the wireless on my laptop to
>> work under Linux, and am looking to buy a pcmcia card that is very well
>> supported.  Any suggestions?

Its hard to recomend specific cards since they change what chips they
use. But I can recomend some chips and drivers.

Atheros (madwifi.org) -- They have binary blobs but work nicely
Prism (hermes/prism driver) -- Hard to find now since they are tad old
isl (prism54.org) -- experimental drivers (older isl is supported with
hermes/prism drivers)
Intel IPW -- these are quite well supported, but some have binary blobs
(ipw3945) The later of these cards are awesome when it comes to
reception, but I don't know if they make them in PCMCIA/cardbus factor.
Broadcom 43XX (bcm43xx.berlios.de) -- these cards are very common in
laptops and support is so-so.

For specific cards refer to these 2 sites:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/#whard
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison
(avoid anything that is only supported through ndiswrapper)

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Avishay