Matt Crandall wrote:
I had a question. I currently only have wireless net access available to me, and as such need the wireless in my laptop to work. I'm using ndiswrapper and the broadcom drivers right now (yech!) because that's my internal setup (Dell Inspiron 2200 Laptop). Was thinking about buying a PCMCIA wireless card that is more GPL friendly, and was looking for recommendations?
http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html It lists several chipsets and PCMCIA or USB adapters that use them. I tested some USB wireless adapters with Kubuntu Dapper a while back and found two that work well. * LINKSYS WUSB54G USB wireless b/g adapter: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833124126 Works just fine; plug it in and enable the interface. My device turned out, as I had hoped, to be version 4, which uses the FSF-endorsed Ralink chipset. * D-Link DWL-G122 USB wireless b/g adapter: http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833127151 Also works fine, and the version turned out to be rev B1, which uses the FSF-endorsed Ralink chipset. The reason I care about versions (not that I can specify the version when ordering!) is that different versions of the same device might use entirely different chipsets. The Linux wireless LAN support page at http://linux-wless.passys.nl/index.php spells out which version uses which chipset. In the case of both these devices, the other versions should also be supported, using different drivhttp://linux-wless.passys.nl/index.php ers. For grins, and since it was cheap and tiny, I also tested: * Zonet ZEW2501 http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16833130115 I couldn't get this to work, but then I noted that I have the newer version of the chipset, zd1211b rather than plain old zd1211. This is supported, but would require my recompiling the driver to enable it, per: http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Since I have two that work just fine, I'll just wait a while until the "out of the box" driver works with it. At that price, I could also give it away to someone afflicted with a Windows box. Note that these tests used Kubuntu Dapper, before I ever heard of gNewSense; if they got any help from a proprietary driver, I'm not sure I'd know. HTH, Ted _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
