[ltp] WirelessG LAN PCMCIA card

Tomas Krag linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:17:22 +0200


Anything with the Atheros chipset will work well with the madwifi
driver, and as far as i know most prism54 based cards should work well
also. 
Oh, and so will most cards based on the realtek chipset.

Check the info on the madwifi FAQ under compatibility:
http://www.mattfoster.clara.co.uk/madwifi-6.htm

/tomas

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:59, Bert Haskins wrote:
> Don't make the mistake that I did.
> I have a two MN-520s which seem to work very well under several 
> different distros.
> I then bought a MN-720 ( wireless G (also ms_bs)) without checking first.
> Big mistake!, this uses the Broadcom chipset and seems to have  no  Linux
> support at  all.
> It does work well under  W2K.
> So what is a good wireless G card for Linux?
> Thanks,
>       Bert
> 
> >