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Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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What wireless network card is best for Arch?

Having been shamelessly defeated by ndiswrapper and an old AMD wireless card, I decided I may as well get a new one. What wireless card would you recommend?

From experience, rt2500 chipsets are painless, though my brother informs me that atheros is the way to go.

faelar

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From: Amiens (FR)

Registered: 2007-12-18

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Re: What wireless network card is best for Arch?

I agree with your brother, atheros works well.

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: What wireless network card is best for Arch?

I'd suggest checking out tp-link. The PCI version is the WN650G.

The old slower model got good reviews.

Edit: Uses madwifi.

Last edited by brebs (2008-04-24 03:09:54)

Azrael

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Registered: 2008-04-11

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Re: What wireless network card is best for Arch?

I should point out, I'm looking for a PCI card, not PCMCIA.

brebs

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Re: What wireless network card is best for Arch?

TP-Link TL-WN650G. "18dBm (Typical) High Transmit Power"

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: What wireless network card is best for Arch?

I find Ralink good, although I'm using USB, not PCMCIA. There's a HCL here and the drivers were merged in kernel 2.6.24.