Linux PCMCIA wireless cards - recommendations please

Chris Rees utisoft at googlemail.com
Thu May 29 16:52:54 UTC 2008


Done it again, cheers gmail. Wrong subject above /\

2008/5/29 Chris Rees <utisoft at googlemail.com>:
>>> Does anyone have any pcmcia wireless cards that work with native drivers
>>> in Linux? I am currently working on a project where we want to do some
>>> wireless sensor stuff and would love to keep it all native (and easy to
>>> support)
>>
>> You should probably look for cards that use the Atheros chipsets.  If
>> you have the MadWiFi driver installed, any of these should simply work
>> "out of the box".
>
> Forget Atheros, get a Ralink based one, they actually do work right
> out of the box, on nearly all Free operating systems now.
>
> The brand to buy to guarantee a Ralink is Edimax (though _some_ Belkin
> and Linksys do, but the Belkins don't any more).
>
> Edimax are cheap too!
>
> Chris
>



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