[ILUG] Best WIFI card for linux?

[Conor Wynne]

>>>
>> I bought one of these from PC World on spec a couple of weeks ago  
>> and it worked out of the box with Kubuntu Gutsy and WPA2 Enterprise  
>> and WPA2 PSK.
>>
>> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=322316
>>
>>
> There are three completely different versions of that USB dongle.  
> One Dixons' even had all three. I've even taken them apart.  
> Definitely 3 HWs with different drivers.

Damn it, did yours work with no mickey mousing around with firmware  
and / or other drivers?
I absolutely detest using ndiswrapper drivers, they work, but they are  
not reliable...

At least not with the two WiFi units I have here...  wifi on linux is  
the one thing which annoys me.
I went and bought OSX10.5.1 because it annoyed me so much - Tiger  
media was scratched, and Niall's excuse was his house "Burnt down" - I  
had no other way of getting new media fast enough and tiger was beyond  
repair.

On 17 Jan 2008, at 12:32, James Galvin wrote:
> Had two copies of that same dongle myself, I needed ndiswrapper to  
> get both of them working, but that was over a year ago so I guess  
> the support has improved since or else the hardware has changed.

OK, that is enough for me to rule that one out...

 > Ralink based chipset are pretty good, you can find them in various
 > products (bought one in France for 15 euros not long ago).

 > Some D-Link is actually based on RT, check out the list to be sure :
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware

Quote : rt2x00 drivers...
"... They provide all the features you could expect, such as  
encryption, traffic monitoring, frame injection and more."

Hows about this one so :
http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=321903

Anyone, Beuller?

Regards
Conor.