On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:31:12AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Be that as it may I want to throw a wireless card into my > router/server box. Does anyone have any recommendations for the > simplest card to get working with Debian? I mean the ideal would be > drop the card in, tell iprename(?) what the new card should be, > install a package or two and away I go.
Basically it boils down entirely to the chipset on the card you buy. I have a linksys WPC11 v4 which uses the rtl8180 chipset. There are binary drivers available from realtek for this chipset but I use third party experimental and 100% GPL ones: <http://rtl8180-sa2400.sourceforge.net/>. They work, although I haven't got them building for newer kernels and things are far from straightforward. Also I haven't sussed kismet yet. IIWY, I'd buy a chipset directly supported by either the madwifi stuff <http://madwifi.org> (atheros) or the linux-wlan project <http://www.linux-wlan.org/>. I'd avoid binary only drivers or ndiswrapper based solutions. What you buy is effectively a vote for open devices. -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
