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#1 2008-05-12 18:53:32

11010010110
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Registered: 2008-01-14
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recommended wireless PCI netcard ?

Friend of mine wants a wireless PCI netcard

card needs to

Have good range - the accesspoint is in distance

Have good (preferred open drivers) support in linux (he uses Ubuntu now but may switch distros)




Recommendations ?

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#2 2008-05-12 19:31:54

ornitorrincos
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From: Bilbao, spain
Registered: 2006-11-20
Posts: 198

Re: recommended wireless PCI netcard ?

the old conpectronic c54ri was very good and used the rt2500 chipset, but they "upgraded" it and now uses the rt61 chipset, which performs worse in linux and in windows(it even needs a firmware, something that the rt2500 didn't), if you get a card with the rt2500 chipset they are very good, although they don't support wpa

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#3 2008-05-12 20:29:20

Obi-Lan
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From: Finland
Registered: 2007-05-23
Posts: 179

Re: recommended wireless PCI netcard ?

Whos running on WEP nowdays? I got PCMCIA card with rt61 chipset and it works just fine. on 2.6.25 you get ralink drivers in kernel and firmware with pacman -S rt2x00-rt61-fw. You can check compatible cards here: http://linux-wless.passys.nl/

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#4 2008-05-12 21:40:17

ornitorrincos
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From: Bilbao, spain
Registered: 2006-11-20
Posts: 198

Re: recommended wireless PCI netcard ?

Whos running on WEP nowdays?

me
and the signal is worse in my case with the rt61 than with the rt2500(it's still a good card overall, but expected not to do that)


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#5 2008-05-13 07:05:27

Ambi
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From: Warsaw, Poland
Registered: 2007-11-29
Posts: 44

Re: recommended wireless PCI netcard ?

I'm using TP-LINK WN-551G 54Mbps Atheros PCI card and it's just fine. I haven't checked my AP at distance, but antennas are modular, so that isn't a problem. Atheros have no problem with drivers at all: (madwifi for linux, checked on Windows XP x64, too).

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#6 2008-05-15 01:35:10

Lyceuhns
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From: João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brasil
Registered: 2008-05-09
Posts: 121

Re: recommended wireless PCI netcard ?

I'm on a Ralink, rt61, 2 years already, with 2 Km of AP distance and with a external antenna.
Price, functionality, drivers ok... very nice.

My only problem was on Debian (since 4), after compiling, when i try to up the module, the system just stop! Until now, it was just on Debian (all the Debian distro based works fine).

o/

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