WiFi PCI card for linux

[Matthew Carpenter]

DLink, Cisco, and Lucent 802.11b cards have worked well for me.  I hear the newer DLink cards are using the infamous broadcom chipset but the earlier cards used the Prism2 chipset.

By the way, since WiFi is the topic, you may be interested in learning that Kismet, the most popular WiFi sniffer/analysis software has been included in SuSE 9.0pro.  

  From the SuSE RPM info:
"Kismet is an 802.11 wireless network sniffer - this is different from a normal network sniffer (such as Ethereal or tcpdump) because it separates and identifies different wireless networks in the area. Kismet works with any 802.11b wireless card which is capable of reporting raw packets (rfmon support), which include any Prism2 based card (Linksys, D-Link, Rangelan, and more), Cisco Aironet cards, and Orinoco-based cards. Kismet also supports the WSP100 802.11b remote sensor by Network Chemistry and is able to monitor 802.11a networks with cards which use the ar5k chipset. "

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.
> 
> Best of luck,
> 
> Andrew Gould
> 
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