Re: [SLE] Bombproof linux wireless PCI cards

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:01 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> 3. Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] builtin on my notebook. Need
> ndiswrapper and the windows driver, but works fairly well from there on.

Sorry, this was misleading. The broadcom works, but it's nowhere near
as good as the Atheros or Intersil based ones. I wouldn't buy it on a
PCI or PCMCIA card, I only have it because it came in my notebook. But
thankfully it is a mini-pci card so I can (and will) replace it.

Be careful, there are two Intersil chipsets, one is supported in the
kernel, one isn't.

Also, I don't know if the Intel 2200 chipset is available on a PCI card,
but it's a very very good controller, and works out of the box in linux
- doesn't even need you to get the firmware because it's in the card.

Hans


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