[mdlug] Wireless card recommendation

[gib at juno.com]

DLink WNA-2330 has built in drivers.

-- "Michael ORourke" <mrorourke at earthlink.net> wrote:
Thanks Ray... I enjoyed your story.  Sounds like Deja vu from when I used to 
support Windows workstations/networks.  :-)
I'll try to locate a wireless card with the Atheros chipset.  Although that 
appears to be a little more tricky than I thought.  With most auction 
sellers not including that info in the description.  Looks like I have to go 
with model #'s and do some Google searches.

-Mike


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
To: "MDLUG's Main discussion list" <mdlug at mdlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Wireless card recommendation


>> From: Michael ORourke
>
>> It looks like there are a lot of cheap "generic" wireless
>> cards on eBay.
>
> Atheros-based chipsets work well with Linux and are supported by
> a nearly-fully-open-source driver. I used a desktop card with this
> chipset, and you can see the report here:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/4e8855d2ba7cfccf
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ray Ingles                                            (313) 227-2317
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