On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 19:24 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > The madwifi drivers are still 'beta' but they are stable, they are included > > in > > Ubuntu although I'm unsure of any other distro. > > SuSE ships everything they're legally allowed to out of the box. Yast > support seems to be very good too (obviously I can't test it all ;). > > Atheros seems to be the best bet, followed by Prism54. > > The 10,000,000 question still stands: where do you get cards with these > chipsets? Be aware that manufacturers change chipsets without changing > card model numbers.
One could always go to the dse site that was pointed to, download the linux driver that they offer, and note that it is the madwifi driver, and therefore its gonna have the atheros chipset :-) [1] Of course this _is_ the more expensive of the two cards on offer (XH6828) [1] DSE do have a habit of providing a fixed version of linux drivers, and do not update their downloadable. IMHO they would be better to provide some simple info like "this card works with the madwifi driver, and if that driver is not provided by your distribution you can download it from madwifi.sf.net" or "this card works with the airo driver which is included in the linux kernel, the module is named airo_cs" or "this card has no linux drivers but you can use it in linux in conjunction with the ndiswrapper driver... etc" > > Volker > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
