Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Wayne Topa [2009 Aug 19 13:48 -0500]: > Glad you got a good buy. I'm sure you'll be happy with the Atheros > chip. I sure am. Ditto, Wayne. I think now the Atheros chipsets should be among the preferred wireless adapters these days. I bought a Linksys WPC-55AG almost five years ago and it

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark wrote: Wayne wrote: Do a google search for madwifi. All the info about cards that work with the Atheros drivers is there. Look for the Compatibility page. Thanks Wayne, unfortunately the madwifi Compatibility page is broken when I go there (http://www.madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility). N

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
Wayne wrote: >> Do a google search for madwifi. All the info about cards that work with the Atheros drivers is there. Look for the Compatibility page. Thanks Wayne, unfortunately the madwifi Compatibility page is broken when I go there (http://www.madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility). No problem, I

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark wrote: Awesome info, thanks everyone for helping find a good solution. I have yet to purchase but have very good direction on some candidates to buy now. Klistvud: Thanks for the tips - I prefer to put my money towards a Linux-friendly company any chance I get. I'd prefer a new card if po

Re: [SOLVED] Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Mark
Awesome info, thanks everyone for helping find a good solution. I have yet to purchase but have very good direction on some candidates to buy now. Klistvud: Thanks for the tips - I prefer to put my money towards a Linux-friendly company any chance I get. I'd prefer a new card if possible but not

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've had excellent success with Atheros based adapters. They now use the ath5k module included with recent kernels. I dont't have any of the newer hardware that requires the ath9k driver, however. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessi

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 18. 08. 2009 19:03:35 je Mark napisal(a): > After numerous Google searches I'm unable to arrive at a definitive > answer/website so please send me a link if I've missed something > (here's the > best I've found so far: http://www.linux-drivers.org/, > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/). My question

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-18 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:03:35 -0700 Mark wrote: > After numerous Google searches I'm unable to arrive at a definitive > answer/website so please send me a link if I've missed something (here's the > best I've found so far: http://www.linux-drivers.org/, > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/). My question

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-18 Thread Mark
Thanks Howard. Your link led me to do more research which led me to this page which has lots of options including the one you have which is Linux compatible: http://hardware4linux.info/search/. I had not seen it before but man it is handy in case anyone else needs a hardware reference and doesn't

Re: Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-18 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2009-08-18, Mark wrote: > After numerous Google searches I'm unable to arrive at a definitive > answer/website so please send me a link if I've missed something (here's the > best I've found so far: http://www.linux-drivers.org/, > http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/). My question is simple: I inheri

Wireless Adapter Card compatibility

2009-08-18 Thread Mark
After numerous Google searches I'm unable to arrive at a definitive answer/website so please send me a link if I've missed something (here's the best I've found so far: http://www.linux-drivers.org/, http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/). My question is simple: I inherited an old (very old) laptop with no