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#1 2010-03-23 03:30:07

cesura
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What wireless card works well with Arch?

Hello there big_smile

I recently finished building my quad-core (yay!) pc and because I don't want to run a long ethernet cable across the house, I was wondering if you guys knew any wireless cards I could use for my desktop (PCI/PCI-Express) that would work well with arch. I'd prefer to order it over the internet, and don't want to spend more than $100 (tax/shipping included). I know there was an earlier thread about this, but I didn't want to revive it and I also had some "requirements" in which I pick out. All help is appreciated smile

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#2 2010-03-23 04:02:45

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

Atheros Wireless cards work great on linux, I searched some on amazon for you big_smile there are some very good picks. They have extended range also lol

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? … ci&x=0&y=0

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#3 2010-03-23 04:54:22

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

655321 wrote:

Atheros Wireless cards work great on linux, I searched some on amazon for you big_smile there are some very good picks. They have extended range also lol

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss? … ci&x=0&y=0

Thanks big_smile I'll have a look at those. I have had great experiences with atheros cards on my laptop so hopefully these will act the same

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#4 2010-03-23 05:08:36

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

no problem lol

yeah I have an atheros chipset too, they work wonders big_smile


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#5 2010-03-23 16:25:31

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

Atheros ar5007eg here.

Works like a charm.

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#6 2010-03-23 16:27:28

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

Linksys WUSB54GC 802.11g Adapter
Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
Both work fine.

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#7 2010-03-23 16:33:53

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

Avoid ralink though, it's a bit of a risk.

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#8 2010-03-24 00:35:37

cesura
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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

Ok I will probably order the atheros card later tonight. I hope linux will pick it up right away and all I will need to do is a modprobe ath9k and configure it via dhcpcd big_smile

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#9 2010-04-21 22:06:54

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Re: What wireless card works well with Arch?

Ok, so long story short, it was a Mini-PCI card, so I bought http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi … 0414012318 after a recommendation of another arch user. I got it today, put the card in it, and put it into the pci-express slot. Booted up, and when it showed the pci 'extensions' (if you will), it displayed the Ethernet port (which is strange considering it doesn't use PCI/PCI-e) and nothing else. lspci doesn't show it either, as well as ifconfig.

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