I'm amazed that your friend can't find a driver. I buy a new laptop every
eight months or so (my travel habits are physically hard on laptops). Since I
go through them so quickly, I usually just go to my local WalMart/Office
Depot/Staples and buy whatever is cheapest that has a decent graphics card.
I haven't had a problem getting wifi to work in years. What card could he not
find a driver for? The only issue I've had is that the current atheros drivers
for 802.11n (ath9k) are not very friendly for MAC spoofing (though I hear
that's changing), so for my current box I also carry an Alfa AWUS050NH whose
driver is very spoof-friendly.
I think one of your problems is that the madwifi driver, per se, is only for
cards up to 802.11g, and will not support 802.11n. Thus, I'm not surprised you
might have a problem with madwifi. Atheros chips that support 802.11n use the
ath9k driver (which is also provided by madwifi.org) .
In any case, my most recent box is an HP Pavilion dv7-3067cl. It has an
atheros chipset, but it's already a discontinued model.
billo
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Scott Vargovich wrote:
Hi there,
I have a friend who wants to buy a 64 bit laptop that one of you has had
success installing Linux on. His budget is around $800. He's returning a
Toshiba Sattelite model whose internal wifi isn't supported at all. I'd like
to find him one that has atheros-based wifi that madwifi recognizes without
any hassle. The distro we want to use is Ubuntu / Mint. Please reply if
you've had this type of experience with the brand / make of the laptop.
Thanks in advance,
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