FYI The NETGEAR WG311T seems to do fine with the madwifi driver, or at least the one I just got from best buy seems okay. I've only tested the 802.11 b functions. (In my application I can't use the thick allnet card.)
Of course newegg shows two box pictures. I have the one where the metal box is thin and only takes up the left half. If you get one it wouldn't hurt to get it from somewhere that allows returns in the event that it doesn't arrive with the chipset you thought it would arrive with. Also note my testing is from 10 feet away and I've only checked basic WEP, dhcp, and a few web pages so far.. Personally, based on what I know, if the thicker card isn't a problem, and for almost everyone it won't be, the allnet might be a better choice. Do note that the prism54 drivers most everyone use require a hard mac card like that one. Many of the new cards are so called soft mac versions where it simply doesn't work, although there is work on a new version here. http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/index.html I tried an SMC card that turns out to requires the softmac driver, and I got the card to come up and go into master mode but pinging didn't work. In short, that doesn't seem ready for production use at this time.. Linux wireless, especially in finding cards that support Master mode can be an adventure.. Of course if you don't need master mode, you can possibly use the ndiswrapper to use windows drivers. I never investigated that since it didn't help with what I needed to get working.. -Robert On Mon, 2005-09-05 at 21:24 -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:53:14AM +0100, Nick wrote: > > Having built another backend for some spares and some new capture > > cards, I want to get it accessible via WiFi on my network (g-based). > > > > The best card currently available 802.11 card, in my opinion, is the > ALL0271, which uses the prism54 driver. I've got a link and more info > written up at http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/linux/hardware/ > > You won't need ndiswrapper or anything. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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