Re: Debian Etch compatible wireless PCI card recommendations

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:10:56 +0200
Gyorgy Abraham <hangcsapda@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Glen Yu írta:
Hi everyone,

I'm going to be housemates with a co-worker of mine and he uses an Apple
wireless router which allows him to send songs to his speakers via iTunes.

Anyhow, the router has no ethernet ports so I'm going to need to get a
wireless PCI card for my PC. I was just wondering if anyone here uses
wireless PCI and what's good to use with Debian Etch. I was looking at
the D-Link WDA-2320 RangeBooster G Desktop Adapter -- does anyone have
problems with that?


If you have any recommendations on PCI or even USB wireless adapters
that will work well with Debian Etch, please let me know. Thanks!


Cheers,
-Glen

Hello,

I can recommend you:
- SiS163u based wifi devices (for example: KWG-3000 USB 2.0 adapter) ->
ndiswrapper + win32 driver
- Broadcom based devices (I'm using Broadcom 4306 with the free bcm43xx
driver, this driver can only work at 11 mbit/s, but ndiswrapper+win32
driver gives 54 mbps).

There two chips were extensively used by me under Linux.
I'm using Broadcom 4306 (miniPCI in a laptop) now, without errors.

Any Atheros-based PCI or PCMCIA card (NOT USB).
My laptop has a Broadcom 4318; it works with the native
(reverse-engineered) bcm43xx driver and (with what feels like better
performance) ndiswrapper, but I still prefer Atheros hardware. Madwifi
was designed with the company's cooperation, not via
reverse-engineering, it has excellent documentation, and it works very
well. [You do have to tolerate a non-free HAL]. I've used a Trendware
TEW-443PI for years with excellent results, and more recently an Airnet
card with no complaints (about the hardware; the company failed to
honor a rebate submission). Just look for cards advertising 108MB; you
don't have to use that Atheros proprietary extension to the 802.11g
standard, but it's a trivial and foolproof way of locating Atheros gear.

Celejar
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