Lars Stokholm wrote:
John Nielsen wrote:
On Monday 15 January 2007 13:44, John Nielsen wrote:
On Monday 15 January 2007 12:54, Lars Stokholm wrote:
Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, before I go mad (no pun
intended.) :)
I was initially looking for a relatively cheap 54Mbps, 802.11g- and
WPA-capable network card, based on an Atheros chipset, but after
spending the whole of last night looking for one - to no avail - I gave
up.
I'm almost about to conclude that Atheros is not the way to go. So
now I
want to know, if anyone can recommend ANY card, being cheap and
supporting the features mentioned above. I don't mind using NDIS, as
long as it works flawlessly. Also it would be good, if the card was a
popular one, so community support is more available.
For driver support in FreeBSD, Atheros is definitely the way to go. Have
you looked through the listings here?
http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/default.asp
Also, you failed to mention what your definition of "cheap" is, and what
form factor you're looking for (PCI, Cardbus, etc.) I would start
with the
listings at the link above and look through products from the
cheaper-but-popular brands (D-Link, Belkin, Netgear, Linksys) to see if
there are any you can currently buy within your price range.
I can't really say what cheap is, just that it's in the low(er) end of
the scale. I only have a rough sense of the price levels in Denmark and
I certainly know nothing about them in the US. :)
The listing above it good, but I like this better, since it also warns
about different versions of the card:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
This is the list I went through last night:
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_chipset.php?chipset=Atheros
But one-by-one I threw them all away.
The Netgear WG311T seems like a widely available decent bet for ~$50
USD.
In the data sheet it says: "Upgradable to Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
security." I wonder what that means.
Also there are many versions of the card: WG311TIS, WG311TFS, WG311TGE,
WG311TNE and so on. After having already spend money on a card that
didn't work, because only rev. ? of the card used Atheros, I'm being
very cautious.
http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware
Ta,
Joe
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