The aircrack-ng driver worked for me, to get me wi-fi network and
internet access. However, it wasn't really all that reliable. I noticed
that download speeds in Firefox, Update Manager, and Synaptic would
sometimes drop to 0kb/s / "Unknown". Signal strength for the current
network as displayed in the notification area icon would fluctuate
wildly as well, and I couldn't see the signal strength of networks in
the network list.
And then its unreliability got really noticeable when I started playing
online shooters like OpenArena. I would get "Connection Interrupted"
every 2 minutes for about 5-10 seconds. Obviously, very disruptive to
gameplay. So I ended up switching to ndiswrapper+win98 drivers. It's
rock solid, I can see the signal strength of networks in the network
list, and my current signal strength doesn't fluctuate anymore.

The point of this post is to say that I don't believe the aircrack-ng
drivers are suitable as a replacement for the current drivers. If anyone
wants to prove me wrong, please feel free. :)

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