On 06/30/2010 06:38 PM, Mark Styles wrote: > Hi, > > I'm setting up an old PC for my son. It has Ubuntu on it (currently Edgy > but I'll be upgrading). The only thing it doesn't have is a wifi network > card. Does anyone have recommendations for a decent card that works with > Ubuntu? >
I have found from hard experience that you can't fully trust any lists since new devices come out so often, and manufacturers seem to relish releasing new revisions of devices that have the same IDs, same model name, even the same rev# but have totally different chipsets. Buy it at a place that has a liberal return policy and try it out. Many of them may require compiling something or using ndiswrapper until the kernel gets updated with new drivers or IDs. I can't guarantee it, but those that advertise Mac support should have a better chance of working. Oh, and I would go with USB if you can... One possibility: if you already have a linux flashed router, a solution I use and have used for a long time is a WDS network. This way you keep a second router near the old computer, and you connect the computer via ethernet to it. Nice stable wifi and no messing around with drivers and so on. It is pretty trivial to set up WDS with dd-wrt or tomato. The cost of a new WRT54GL (about $80 I think - flashing takes 5 mins) is similar to a new USB network device, you get alot more power and configurability this way, it can extend your wifi network if you need that, plus you get 5 10/100 ports to plug into (you can assign WAN port to LAN). Jeremy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
