Looking for WiFi card recommendations

Philip Walden pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Mon Mar 12 00:36:09 UTC 2007


antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2007/3/11, Andrew Parker <andrewparker at bigfoot.com>:
>> I need to get a WiFi card for my laptop, and could do with some
>> recommendations as to what to get.  My preference is for an 802.11g,
>> but would be prepared to splash out for 802.11n if its known to work
>> well under FC6.
>>
>> Ideally, I would be able to get this from a bricks & mortar store
>> rather than order over the internet, so a common brand such as linksys
>> or d-link would be great.
>>
>> What I've found so far is that people recommend chipsets, but I have
>> been unable to establish how I can work out the chipset of a product -
>> particularly when I'm in a store looking at a bunch of boxes.
>>
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>
> running a D-Link DWL-G650 with Atheros chipset: it works fine not out
> of the box but by Madwifi driver (that is easy to install)
Ditto on the D-Link DWL-G630. Use the MadWiFi from livna repository. It 
meshes well with Fedora. Only problem was loss of dhcp IP from a 
suspend. I had to inactivate-activate ath0 to get it to recover an dhcp IP.




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