On Jul 17, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Robert Citek wrote: > > Anyone have a recommendation for a wifi card that will work under > Debian on a desktop box? > > At ByteWorks one of the parents has broadband with a wireless > router. They'd like to connect their new Debian machine to the > wireless network using a wifi card, preferably a USB wireless > device. A quick google for USB wireless brought up some articles > (most out of date), including this one about Atmel: > > http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=linux&seqNum=76&rl=1 > > I also had a look through the HCL on linuxquestions: > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php? > product=3478&cat=all > > Has anyone used a USB NIC? How about any other wireless NIC for > desktop machine? Care to share your experiences?
My experience with USB wireless adapters can be summed up as such: bad reception. Whether this is because the devices can't pull enough juice or they have keychain-sized antennae, I don't know the cause. There are plenty of PCI wireless NICs to be had for $20 on amazon. I would bet $17 this is a Realtek card: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BRGFMY/sr=1-2/qid=1153168746/ ref=pd_bbs_2/104-9159716-2646324?ie=UTF8&s=electronics which is fine for home use. -M ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ AgentM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ ¬ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
