WiFi PCI card for linux

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 11:21:46 -0600
"Andrew L. Gould" <algould at datawok.com> wrote:

> On Sunday 07 December 2003 08:10 am, Federico Voges wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm about to re-assemble my PC and I have a wireless router here at
> > home. I'm going to use WiFi because I don't want to mess with wiring.
> >
> > Does anyone have any recommendation about wifi PCI cards?? Specially
> > those with problems (obviously to avoid them ;) ).
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> If you already have an ethernet port (onboard or PCI) for your PC, check
> out D-Link's DWL900AP+ or the DWL2000AP+.  These items are external
> devices that connect to your ethernet port and are configured via web
> browser.  They can be configured for various modes such as access points,
> bridge, adhoc peer or infrastructure network client.  WEP is handled by
> the device, so you don't have to configure WEP on the PC.  All the PC and
> OS see are a normal, wired, network connection.

I use a DWL2000AP+ at home with little problems. I choose a D-LINK 11b card
because at that time that was all that was supported by Linux. I use the
driverloader and XP drivers for my card, and it works great. I understand
that they support 11g drivers as well. But that was after I bought mine.
Check out:

	http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

I use the ACX100 driver stuff. At $20, the price is ok. Better would be
proper vendor support. TI are 'supposed' to release some Linux drivers for
their stuff 'any day now'.

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