Re: Recommendations for wireless PCI card

I demand that Rui Maciel may or may not have written...

[snip]
So it seems that in the end the best alternative is indeed an atheros-
based card. It may be based on a binary blob but at least the company
contributed directly to the madwifi project.

I've set up a Ralink-based Belkin card; it works sufficiently well with the
rt61 driver and a patched wpa_supplicant (the patch provides it with an
"ralink" protocol module so that it can communicate with the kernel module).
Configuration was via /etc/network/interfaces, as is normal on Debian
installations.

http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/data/RT61_Linux_STA_Drv1.1.0.0.tar.gz contains
the driver and the extra wpa_supplicant files. These files are intended for
0.4.7, but I've had it working with 0.5.5 with a little fiddling; for some
reason, it isn't supplied as a patch, but see also Launchpad for a version in
patch form:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/104282
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/7243933/ralink_rt61_driver_support.diff

Also, http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ has drivers for various Ralink chips.

[snip]
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