I think I found one of these PCI rt2860 guys for $40 on Amazon, if anyone is interested - seems like the cheapest with this chip right now:
http://www.amazon.com/PLANEX-Wireless-Adapter-GW-DS300N-designed/dp/B000PGTGO0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1218214400&sr=8-1 On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 02:01:16PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2008-08-08, Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Longshine LCS-8031N Draft-N wireless PCI card [1] is supported by > > ral(4). It is based on the RT2860 chip. It works reliably here as hostap > > with WPA-PSK and good coverage. > > Many of the draft-N cards are RaLink RT2860, and work *really* > well, very much better than the old RT2560 cards. Besides the fairly > hard to buy (at least in minipci format) acx(4), this is the first > thing I've had running hostap better than the old PRISM cards. > > Running WPA you might be interested to note this from ral(4) - > > On the RT2700 and RT2800 chipsets, the ral driver offloads both encryp- > tion and decryption of data frames to the hardware for the WEP40, WEP104, > TKIP(+MIC) and CCMP ciphers. > > I hope the RT2860 don't disappear now that the RT2880 cards > are showing up (at least until we have support and firmware :-) -- Niall O'Higgins P2P Research http://p2presearch.com http://niallohiggins.com
