[ILUG] Best WIFI card for linux?

Chris Woods woods.mc at gmail.com
Thu Jan 17 11:59:17 GMT 2008


I used to do some WiFi driver work - not on linux unfortunately, however my
manager at the time had written a number of drivers. He recommended getting
an Atheros based WiFi card, it's supported by MadWiFi drivers. I just did a
"lspci" and here's what it came up with... (I'd have to power down the
machine to get more details - let me know if you want them )

00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abgNIC (rev 01)

Hope this helps.


On 17/01/2008, Conor Wynne <mariconor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am sure this has been answered before, but in case something new has
> been released since the last advice.
>
> What is 100% OSS and 100% sure to work with full encryption with linux?
>
> I need one really quickly for a friends kids bedroom PC.
> PCI or USB is fine
>
> The use of windows drivers is not acceptable, neither is OSS drivers
> without encryption -- I already have two cards which do that and no
> encryption = worse than useless.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Conor.
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