Wireless card for Feisty

Pete Holsberg pjh42 at pobox.com
Fri Jun 22 02:47:28 UTC 2007


Albert Charron keyed the following on 6/21/2007 2:59 PM:
> David Stubblebine wrote:
>   
>> I think I'm going to replace the Belkin "B" card I have in my Dell
>> laptop with a "G" card.  Can anyone recommend one that survived the
>> upgrade to Feisty without any problems?  I would prefer a card that
>> just "works."
>>     
> I used 3 different adapters on my Feisty laptop.  These are working "out 
> of the box" on my laptop, but needs the "restricted driver"... On 
> Mandriva, I had to install madwifi to make them work, but they were 
> working perfectly there too...
>
> - D-Link DWL-G650
> - Belkin (don't remember the model, but it was a "G" and working 
> perfectly under Linux while I couldn't make it work under doze)
> - Netgear WG111 USB
>
> I think you'll need to check for the chipset on the card.  I know that 
> D-Link has many different revisions of the same card, and the chipset 
> may vary from a revision to another.  The Belkin and the D-Link are 
> using atheros chipsets...
>   

I have been assured that PCI cards using the Atheros chipset work right 
out of the box.

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Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ

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