Recommendations for desktop wireless card

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Feb 17, 2008 8:58 AM, Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 7:27 AM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >  Get one that uses the artheros chipset....
> >
>
> I think that's atheros, but I second the motion. The madwifi drivers
> for atheros are pretty well maintained, and I've had good luck with my
> Thinkpad-R51 on both Ubuntu and Debian Sid..


Atheros is a huge wildcard.  While many of their chipsets do work with
madwifi, not all do.  Unless you see reports from others online
stating that the atheros chip that you're intending to purchase works
already, do not assume that is the case.

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