On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:05:56PM +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which > cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards > and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. > > Any experiences, suggestions?
I recently successfully set up my gentoo box as a wireless access point using a D-link DWL-G520, which is based on the Atheros chipset so is supported by the madwifi driver (in portage). It does 54Mbps, and setting it up was hassle-free for me. Atheros-based cards are probably your safest bet nowadays, since newer Prism-based cards aren't supported by the linux Prism driver. After the Prism driver, the madwifi driver is probably the most mature, at least from what I've read. The only thing I haven't got working with it yet is WPA encryption. Apparently it is possible, just not well documented at the moment. WEP is working fine though. (If anyone has any tips on how to get WPA working, I'd love to hear them!) HTH, Toby -- PhD Student Quantum Information Theory group Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Garching, Germany email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.dr-qubit.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
