[ubuntu-za] Proper WiFi dongle for Lucid

[josholikestofly at gmail.com]

2010/12/22 Daniël Louw <daniel at dline.co.za>

> Morning all
>
> My desktop PC at home is connected to the home network via WiFi. Currently
> I use a Netgear WG 311v3 card.
> A quick search on the Web will show that this card is notorious to get to
> work on any Linux distro, and impossible to get to work on Win7 x64 without
> bypassing serious security features.
>
> My machine is located quite far from the access point, so I have trouble
> with high volume transfers to the backup NAS. At this stage I get a max.
> transfer rate of 500KB/s (for a 54mbps card!)
>
> So I decided to put myself in the market for a new WiFi adapter!
> I am preferably looking for something USB, so that I can move the dongle
> around and get it out behind my PC which is between the aerial and the
> access point.
> My questions are:
>
> * What do you use?
> * Experiences?
> * Likes/dislikes?
> * How well does it mesh with Ubuntu?
>
> Thanks very much in advance!
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Daniël Louw
> ================================
> daniel at dline.co.za
> www.dline.co.za
> +27 84 2499 299
> +12 12 347 8305
> ================================
>
>

Hey

A quick search brings this up:

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB

(you can also check out their support, drivers and documentation pages)

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

Although not sure how up to date the latter link is. Best to check it out :)

Would like to hear how things go, as also might be interested in getting a
wirless usb at some stage.

Cheers

Josh
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