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Re: [LUG] WIRELESS CARD

 

Quoting Rhia Knowles <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I had a linksys PMCIA wlan card needed much looking into. Based on the
ironically named "Libertas" chip, it needs ndiswrapper. Luckily once I found
the drivers it was easy on mint. wpc54g v5, in case anyone's wondering which
one to avoid.

Problem is, you cant really go by manufacturer. They (for good business
reasons) buy in chips from whoever's cheaper with each model. In windows,
not a problem, just provide Windows drivers. The rest of us....

Useful resource for checking before you buy: http://linux-wless.passys.nl/


That's a handy link, I'll bookmark that.

Whenever I buy a wireless card (USB/PCI/whatever) I tend to now test it with Linux, usually the latest release of Ubuntu that I have kicking around. 9 times out of 10 I manage to pick a card that works. I've found TP-Link cards are reasonably good in this repect, they seem to have a Ralink chipset on them.

But as you say, chipsets can change. I'm guessing if they do change then the 'revision' of the card would be updated, or at least you'd think so anyway.

Rob





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