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kdorf

Member

From: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Registered: 2008-06-30

Posts: 17

Suggested wireless cards?

Well, it looks like there are issues with the wireless on my ASUS M2N32 mobo, so until I can get a good ethernet connection I'd like to find a good replacement wireless card. This wireless card would preferably not drop my connection at random intervals.

What options are there for cards that work well and play nice with Linux? I don't mind using ndiswrapper if I really have to, but I'd like to avoid it.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Suggested wireless cards?

I've used a 3Com PC card (prism54 driver) and a ralink USB device (rt73usb driver) with no problems, and the Broadcom device (b43 driver) in my current laptop works fine too. I also had a Netgear USB one for a good while - again no problems, although the required wlan-ng driver takes a bit of getting used to.

Gluffs

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Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 25

Re: Suggested wireless cards?

Im using a Asus 107g PCMCIA card, rt2500 chipset.

Im using the rt2500 driver that is available threw pacman, netcfg and archassistant, works whitout any issues.Havent had the chance to try WPA yet so i dont know if that works.

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Suggested wireless cards?

what wireless card is it on your mobo? There's probably a native driver...