[ltp] Which wireless network card?

[Luis Lebron]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> I recently took delivery of an X31, model 2672-PBU, which comes with 
> the Intel wireless card.
>
> I am aware of the Centrino issues, and am trying to determine the best 
> strategy for running this system under Linux (Mandrake 9.2).
>
> Apparently my choices are:
>
> 1) Do nothing, use Windows for wireless, and wait for the Intel Linux 
> driver
>
> 2) Get the $20 Linuxant solution for using the Windows driver under Linux
>
> 3) Get the open source NDISwrapper package to use the Windows driver 
> under Linux
>
> 4) Spend $85 on the IBM a/b/g replacement card (part 31P9701) which 
> uses the Atheros chipset and is supported under Linux by the "madwifi" 
> driver.
> (Some people on this list seem to have had some problems with this card)
>
> Any experiences or suggestions on the best approach are greatly 
> appreciated, even if it's not one of the above options.
>
> - Evan
>
>
I use a Microsoft PC wireless card (MN-520) with the drivers from the 
linux-wlan project (http://www.linux-wlan.com/download.html). They 
support a cards based on the prism2 chipset.


Luis