[ILUG] Best WIFI card for linux?

[Rob Gallagher]

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On 17/01/2008, Conor Wynne  wrote:
> I am sure this has been answered before, but in case something new has
> been released since the last advice.
>

Yep, I posted a similar question a number of months back ;)

> What is 100% OSS and 100% sure to work with full encryption with linux?
>

I ended up going with the Netgear WG311T (PCI):

http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG311T.aspx
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility/Netgear#WG311T

As the link above says, Madwifi support is good and encryption works
out of the box. There was no trouble getting it working with Ubuntu
(gutsy), after enabling the restricted modules*

rg

*Note: While it seems the madwifi drivers are open source, they do
have a dependency on a proprietary hardware abstraction layer - hence
the restricted modules classification.

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