The forum here is quite naturally mainly queries from people asking for help with wireless devices which they are having trouble with. I am looking to buy a new card, but there seems little info on what DOES work well.
The thread here Welcome closed in 2008 and the links in it are all dead, except one pointing to a list compiled in 2004 (!)
The HCL is confused and incomplete.
Where best to find out what to buy?
Hi
What type of card. USB, PCI, PCIe, cardbus? Desktop, notebook?
Trouble is you really need the PCI ID info to be really sure…
Here is a web site I found where you can search for many known brands and see if it should work.
Linux wireless LAN support http://linux-wless.passys.nl
The basic problem is, there is a brand name and a model name, but also a version and even worse, a internal chipset. A single manufacturer might use a certain chipset type in version one of his wireless hardware and a different chipset in their version two of the very same brand and model of wireless hardware. I did buy and install a wireless PCIe card that can be used in a desktop and was very reasonable. Still, you must pay close attention to brand, model AND version of a recommended product to be sure that it might work for you.
Thank You,
Thanks guys, I have seen the passys.nl site,
I THINK I want a pci or pcie card with 802.11n as my family have just got infinity broadband WOOHOO! 40Mb up 10Mb down, and my current wireless g can’t hack it… although if the USB’s are good one of those so I can use it with the laptop (if I ever get it back from the ex gf)
What card did you buy James?
I purchased an ASUS PCE-N13 802.11b/g/n Wireless PCI-Express Adapter (this is the small PCI motherboard card slot connector, not regular PCI slot and not of course a video slot) from Amazon.com for $28 US plus shipping AND it works with Linux and Windows.
It seems fast to me and it has two small Antennas on the back of the card. I can say that I have not tried to use it real far away from my wireless router, so it is hard to know how well it works far away, but it works well for me as I have installed it.
Thank You,
If you go to google shopping and search wireless nic, you’ll see a link on the lefthand side that says “linux compatible”. If the manufacturer advertises it’s linux compatible (most don’t bother) you’re almost sure to get one that works fairly easy in Linux.
On 03/08/2011 09:36 PM, rodhuffaker wrote:
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very cool info!! thanks!!!
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I bought a Netgear wnce2001 11n ethernet bridge. It can be powered via USB. No compatibility worries but only 2.4GHz
Thanks guys for the replies.
Anyone with the same question might want to look here:
Edimax wiFi cards
Caveat emptor, I have not actually purchased or installed yet.
All the NICs in my signature work in 11.4 OOTB as far as I know (kernel-firmware was installed, but I didn’t do that manually). All are USB adapters (under $15) except the internal Broadcom which is in my ASUS netbook.