PCI Wireless Cards

[John Summerfied]

Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 13:07 +0530, Manish Kathuria wrote:
> 
>>Is there any list of PCI Wireless Cards (802.11b/g) which are natively 
>>supported in FC3 / FC4 ?
> 
> 
> Sounds like what I am thinking of buying myself.  At Walmart they have
> some by Linksys.  I think Linksys usually supports open source for the
> most part.  But I haven't seen them used yet.
> 

I think linksys uses broadcom: it does in its access points & such. 
Broadcom is bad news.

prism54 is (maybe) fine, but see prism54.org. I have two working here, 
one on Ubuntu, one on Debian, but had one working in an FC2 beta. I'm a 
bit concernd though that these folk are working on reverse engineering 
the firmware. This would allow the devices to infringe on FCC 
regulations regarding power (potential nuisance) and frequency (infringe 
on licenced, maybe military, spectrum).

My laptop has builtin Atheros (madwifi) which just works in Ubuntu 5.04 
(Breezy) and SUSE 10. FC users may need to build the driver themselves, 
but the source rpm works fairly well.

I'd give TI a miss: like Broadcom, the company's difficult. I'm not sure 
of the status of the drivers, they may work, but there are easier choices.


Atheros is my current favourite: I get 3.2 Mbytes/sec between it and my 
linksys WRT54G on big files using scp. With that speed, I rarely bother 
plugging in a wire to get more speed.


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