On Sat, 25 Jun 2005 10:20 pm, Matthias Oertli wrote: > Doh! > Would you (or anybody) know of a 802.11g card with good linux support > including WPA?
I use a D-Link DWL-G650 (*NOT* the ..650+) which has an Atheros chipset which works great with the Madwifi drivers - cost about AUD$70-80, and supports 802.11b+g networks. My card has a fairly recent firmware and hardware revision so didn't work "out of the box" with Kubuntu but a quick compile from the latest source soon fixed that. With some help from Rocci I've managed to set up WPA (wpa_supplicant) to work with both pre-shared and "normal" keys. The "ca-certificates" package (Kubuntu) was needed for the pre-shared key configuration so that the authenticity could be verified etc. Once that was sorted, WPA just works :) The D-Link DWL-AG650 with the Atheros chipset is also supported with Madwifi and is a tri-band card (if that's important) - cost AUD$110-130. BTW - the plain "Atheros" and "Super G Atheros" chipsets are supported with Madwifi. The latter is the 108Mbps multi-channel stuff but it only runs at 54Mbps in Linux (probably some fancy-pants flags that the driver needs to pass to the card which haven't been made public). HTH, James -- A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. -- Yogi Berra
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