Re: List of several available WLAN cards, which one to buy?

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 11/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 23:43:20 +0100

In comp.os.linux.networking Daniel B?hmer <boehmerdaniel@web.de>:
> Hello guys,

> I went to some shops in my city this afternoon and got a list of WLAN
> cards I can by there. Here are the names of some NICs cheap enough:

> - D-Link DWL-520+ (my favourite)
> - D-Link DWL-G520+
> - Asus WiFi-G Modul
> - an unknown card with labels like "ISC 3886 PIK" and "M0327C143" on it
> (reseller)

Haven't used one of them, dunno about their price. During looking
around for some cheapo wlan nic, which wouldn't depend on
ndiswrapper or some strange firmware to load, found cards with
Ralink chipset most promising:

01:0a.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus
Reference Card (rev 01)

Got one from MSI (PC54G2), around 20,- Euro iirc, which works
quite nice, the chipset vendor provides GPL driver + some GUI app
to configure/etc:

http://www.ralinktech.com/supp-1.htm

There's in addition a project with a more recent driver:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/rt2400

[..]

Good luck 

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