[ltp] Wireless PCMCIA cards?

[morpheus]

> AFAIK the core madwifi team ist direcly sponsored by Atheros. The
> driver development didn't need any reverse engineering.
> 
You could be right, all my knowledge is second hand.  However, here is a
quote from this mailing list the last time someone asked the "does
anyone know a good WiFi card" question:

Posted by Dax Kelson on September 5, 2004:
> The Intel 2200BG card has 100% a open source driver that is being
> prepared for inclusion in the official kernel tree in the not too
> distant future. This means that the spring '05 releases of Linux
> distributions will work without any extra work. Anybody will be able to
> update and maintain the driver to make sure it continues to work with
> future kernels as the kernel API changes. This will happen even if Intel
> looses interest and moves their developers on to newer products.

> The big drawback to the Atheros wifi, is that it taints the kernel
> rending it unsupportable. The driver will never become part of the
> official kernel tree due to the closed source pieces. You will always
> have to go get the driver separately and compile it yourself. There is
> no guarantee you'll be able to use this card in the future.

Dax, can you comment?