Re: Wireless card for Linux

ray wrote:

Atheros chipset based cards like the Dlink WNA-2330 work very well with
mad-wifi - included with most distros.

It has to be noticed that the current state of wireless support for linux is
rather poor. Besides the Atheros-based cards, whose driver is nothing more
than of the binary blob type, there is absolutely no wifi card which has a
FLOSS driver.

Another thing which has to be said is that some models may share the same
brand and model name but they are in fact completely different cards with
completely different chipsets. That means that you may search for a certain
model which is claimed to have an atheros chipset but in fact it doesn't.
That is a showstopper.


So good luck with your quest. It will be a very hard one.


Rui Maciel
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