> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Dale DuRose wrote: >> Hey guys >> >> Can anyone recommend any pci wireless cards that are well supported on >> linux and are easily available? > > I have a D-Link 520 which has an Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan > chipset in the IPCop, and an Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B > Mini > PCI Adapter (rev 04) in my R40 ThinkPad. > > There is only the one wireless ThinkPad in the household, so I set it and > the > IPCop up to have an ad-hoc 11Mbps point-to-point path between them. Both > cards have Linux kernel drivers, work well and were obtained off TradeMe. >
I have used ad-hoc, but Ap/master mode is so much better! Particularly if you don't want to have to set it up again if you change distros, have visitors or have more than one client. > I have also seen the ndiswrapper solution working well, so that's another > viable solution for cards which do not have a Linux kernel driver. > Probably not a goer for an access point: " Is master mode or promiscuous mode supported? No! NDIS doesn't support Master/Repeater/Monitor modes. The only modes supported are Ad-Hoc and Managed. Note that some drivers may support features that are not in NDIS e.g., showing signal noise and possibly Master mode, but they are proprietary and no documentation available for them, so such features won't be supported by ndiswrapper. " http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/FAQ
