On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:58:40PM +0300, Oded Arbel wrote:
> for example SuSE
> 10.2, but getting encrypted wireless to work with them can be very hard.
> I managed to get WEP to work with Edimax cards (I have both a PCI
> version and a cardbus version) but no WPA (1 or 2).

I had no trouble with it on Ubuntu 7.04. 

> 
> I currently recommend Linksys cards based on broadcom chipsets. They are
> still harder to get then the RaLink based ones, but knowing what brand
> to look for would help you avoid cheap RaLink based hardware that
> pervades the market these days  (they seem to be on almost every
> wireless product I looked at in the last year). Once you get a broadcom
> based card, there is a non-trivial setup process that has to be done, to
> extract the firmware from the official NDIS drivers, but there is ample
> documentation and helper scripts to let you achieve that - and after
> that is done once, your card will work perfectly under Linux.

That's it. It's not trivial and it's X86 only. I having a terrible time
getting ANY Wifi card working on a PPC laptop using Ubuntu 7.04. The laptop
does not have USB, so it has to be a CARDBUS card. It's definately an
Ubuntu problem, the cards and laptop work fine under MacOS.

Geoff.
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