Re: Recommendations for wireless PCI card

What about some prism54-based and realtek-based cards? I've just heard
about those and it seems that at least they are also supported under
linux. Do they work through that proprietary binary blob method?

Well, you've got to have drivers for said card.

ndiswrapper - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
wlan-ng - http://www.linux-wlan.org/
prism54 - http://prism54.org/
atmel - http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/
bcm43xx - http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

And then there's the extras that you might want to use with said cards.

airfart - http://airfart.sourceforge.net/
kismet - http://www.kismetwireless.net/
madwifi - http://madwifi.org/

And probably many many more I don't know about and didn't list here.

As far as manufacturers that support linux, I don't think there are many
if any. At least in terms of releasing linux drivers themselves. Some
have probably helped in the sense of giving specs under an NDA to
programmers to develop drivers. But as far as doing it in house before
the product was released, not likely.
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