Wireless PCI Card with Good Linux Drivers?

Kamakazie! · 4 Jun 2008 at 13:21

I am being forced to go wireless with my desktop in the near future and was wondering if there was a good PCI adaptor for use in Ubuntu/XP.

If not, what about a USB adaptor?

It must be at least .11g and possibly even one of the proprietary speed boost type of devices (like Netgear do) so long as there is a decent matching router.

Thanks

Kamakazie! · 4 Jun 2008 at 13:44

Seems like the TP-Link ones are good so i will get one of those.

Grimbough · 4 Jun 2008 at 15:18

I found this site quite useful, although perhaps a little out of date now:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

It was a pain in the ass finding cards that did everything (WEP, WPA etc) and had driver support. I never found the ndiswrapper methods to be very reliable. I bought the USB 3com that's first in the list and it's worked flawlessly for WEP and WPA in all versions of Ubuntu since Dapper.

brummie · 4 Jun 2008 at 21:44

I have a Shuttle SN68PTG6 Deluxe that comes with an USB wireless dongle that works flawlessly (WPA2) with Ubuntu.

You can purchase them separately here:
http://eu.shuttle.com/en/DesktopDef...earchcall-12/searchcategory-254/noblendout-1/

Rich43 · 8 Jun 2008 at 22:36

+1 for tp link.. have one in laptop.

Wizardskills · 9 Jun 2008 at 00:38

Well i am using a netgear WG311v3 in my linux htpc (ubuntu 8.04) and it is fine (They are cheap if you get then second hand). Also not to hard to set up using ndiswrapper. I used this guide to set it up

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/Netgear_WG311_v3

One thing that you will need to do that isnt on this guide is to paste "ndiswrapper" into the modules file in the etc folder so it starts up every time the computer is turned on.