Re: Wireless cards

From: John Summerfied (debian_at_herakles.homelinux.org)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Brian Fahrlander wrote:
    > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 20:34 -0700, jdow wrote:
    >
    >>From: "John Summerfied" <debian@herakles.homelinux.org>
    >>
    >>>I have a couple of Prism54 cards that work well. Some (at least)
    >>>Atheros-based cards are fine, and I note d-link is now labelling its
    >>>product to indicate which use TI, which use Atheros.
    >>
    >>Um, do you have the Linux driver for those atheros chips or are you
    >>using NDIS? And do you use WPA? My laptop will need to be WPA aware
    >>with the D-Link Atheros chipset three band beastie. (At least it will
    >>"someday.") I have the pieces. But it looks like I'll have to rebuild
    >>the Atheros stuff I have with the WPA files as well. Poo what a (small)
    >>annoyance.
    >
    >
    > Ya know, the way to sell cards of the vendors would be to suggest the
    > ones that work w/o NDIS on this list....and every other Linux list you
    > can find.

    It's a moving target. I bought a couple of Netcomm (an Australian
    manufacturer/distributor) cards. However, their new cards have TI chips.

    >
    > Right now I couldn't possibly afford a laptop, but things can and
    > will change...and I'd like to know ahead of time. In short:
    >
    > What kind of wireless card (say, the basic 11mps type) should I buy?

    I'd not buy an 11b card. Apart from speed, they don't do the latest
    security and WEP is inherently broken.

    I think Centrino's okay, but you'd need to ask at the time. 

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