Laptop Wifi recommendation (cardbus)

[Eric Richardson]

Hi,

I guess I don't really need wap2. Compusa has a card for $10 that can  
be used for Linux - I forget which driver but...

In general for this topic, it seems that if you have intel hardware  
and use ndiswrapper you can use the native driver from windows for  
just about any hardware. For Texas Instruments hardware you can use  
acx100.sf.net which is Open Source but uses proprietary drivers as  
well which is the same for Intel Centrino style. Also, atheros based  
hardware and uses a proprietary Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL). Some  
other manufactures seem to provide a Linux driver but since they  
can't legally link to the kernel I don't know how they do that  
exactly. Anyway, I care to stay as far away as I can from that so the  
Free Software friendly hardware I found is made by Ralink http:// 
ralinktech.com/ and uses the rt2x00.serialmonkey.com driver. There is  
a list of cards at   http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/ 
cards.html. This link points to http://ralink.rapla.net which is a  
bit more thorough.

So I guess I will try to find one off of that list.

Eric


On Sep 19, 2006, at 2:05 PM, JT Moree wrote:

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> Eric Richardson wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking to add WLAN support to an older laptop with a 32bit  
>> type II
>> slot, 3.3v cardbus. I'm currently running Debian testing, etch.  
>> I'd like
>> something that supports 802.11b/g and wap2 to use when out and  
>> about. I
>> saw some stuff that suggested that TP-Link TL-WN510g might work good
>> with madwifi (ath-pci driver) and wpa-supplicant for the security.
>>
>
> why would you need wap2 when you're out and about?  who's encrypted
> networks will you be connecting to?
>
> A guy at the East side meeting said he got a card for $10 that worked
> with Linux.  I was quite intrigued and asked for more info.  He said
> they documented it at svecc.com
>
> http://www.svecc.com/slugubuntu_user_guide.htm
>
> I found this but I don't know if that is exactly the ones he was  
> talking
> about.
>
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> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
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