On 2/23/06, Lubos Vrbka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi guys, > > i'm planning to buy wifi (b/g) card for my laptop, however i'm not about > the support. my colleague has asus with broadcom bcm4306 chipset in his > windoze notebook. i tried it, kernel recognized the card, but the i > cannot find the respective drivers for linux. according to mr. google it > seems that this has to be solved using ndiswrapper. is it really so? > > do you have good experience with ndiswrapper? or would you be willing to > recommend some other pcmcia card / provide pointer to relevant information?
I suggest you forget about the bcm4306. Broadcom clearly doesn't want to cooperate in making native drivers for operating systems other than MS Windows. I'm assuming that you're using a mini-PCI wifi card, so I'd suggest you get one of these, if your budget allows. These are long-range, high-power cards that have good receive sensitivity, which is good for wifi, and are Linux-compatible (using the Madwifi drivers): Mini-PCI * Engenius EMP-8602 - a 400mW mini-PCI type III card * Engenius EL-3054MP2 * Engenius EL-3054MP2 PCMCIA * Engenius NL-5354CB * Engenius NL-3054CB * Netgear WG511T Other than that, you could use cards that use the Ralink RT2500 chipset (e.g. MSI CB54G2, ASUS wifi cards, etc). The good thing about these is that these don't require any firmware. You just download the GPL'd rt2500 drivers. You'd have a tougher time looking for others, such as cards using Prism54, as they aren't really commercially available. eBay would help a lot on these though. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
