Re: Wireless card for Linux

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

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.

If you ignore firmware, then several have.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a=shortlog;h=mm-master
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a=tree;f=drivers/net/wireless;h=733bb6aca4b396c17fd7d0f4849891f238d895e8;hb=mm-master

Some drivers (not necessarily identical, but at least related) are available
from here:
Intel:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads
Ralink:
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://sourceforge.net/project/rt2400

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