I have never gotten a pci card to work and gave up years ago. Almost all of them come with unfriendly chipsets by Broadcom and the other usual suspects and I'm unwilling to use things like ndiswrapper. My laptops all work well and I wired my living room years ago, so I no longer need or want pci wireless.
Google finds: http://users.linpro.no/janl/hardware/wifi.html and a few other 2006 articles. The root of the problem and friendly companies are listed here: http://www.thejemreport.com/content/view/293/ One of the friedlier companies chipsets and products are listed here: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html http://ralink.rapla.net/ At least one place says the Asus card linked below requires ndiswraper and the first three pages of google results mentions the same and other "horror stories". There also seem to be two versions. Without knowing the chipset, I'd stay away. One place says it's a marvell chipset, one of the worst. On Friday 21 November 2008, Brad Bendily wrote: > Has anyone used any PCI wireless cards for a desktop? > I might need two cards, one for a windows box and one for Linux. > Any suggestions? > > newegg says asus has one that supports linux. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320022 > > and linksys has one, but it doesn't say linux support. > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124115 > > help! > thanks > bb _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
