[olug] Good Desktop Wireless for Ubuntu

[Adam Lassek]

I've had excellent luck with Atheros-based cards, which have been supported
by the madwifi drivers, but have been open-sourced completely and should
show up in the kernel at some point. I have the Netgear
WG311T<http://netgear.com/Products/Adapters/SuperGWirelessAdapters/WG311T.aspx>card,
but be sure to double-check that they are still using the same
chipset.

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Jay Swackhamer <Jay at reboottheuser.com>wrote:

> I dont know about a package for Ubuntu, but I bought some cheaper wifi
> PCI cards, and put one in my truck, and it's working without issues.
>
> The driver is in 2.6.28, not sure about earlier kernel versions.
>
> I may still have one or two for about $22/each.
>
> The chipset is a rt61.
>
> lspci:
> 01:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
>
> Modules:
> rt61pci                23044  0
> rt2x00pci               8576  1 rt61pci
> rt2x00lib              33792  2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
> rfkill                 13008  2 rt2x00lib
> led_class               4872  1 rt2x00lib
> mac80211              174704  2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
> cfg80211               35360  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
> eeprom_93cx6            2560  1 rt61pci
>
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> Quoting Dave Rowe <dave at roweware.com>:
>
> > The Linksys USB adapters _work_, but you may need to play with
> > ndiswrapper, as I'm not positive they work out of the box.  Never had
> > issues with them after setup.
> >
> > Chad Homan wrote:
> >> Hey Dave
> >>
> >> I put a D-Link WDA-1320 (98% sure) in one of my brothers desktops
> >> and have had no issues connecting to wireless with the last three
> >> versions of ubuntu. That includes 8.10.  The only downside is the lack
> >> of wireless-N support on the card.  I checked newegg also, they want $30
> >>
> >> I will confirm this card on monday or tues
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker9 at cox.net>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hey folks,
> >>> Daughter wants to put a desktop wireless card in her Ubuntu PC.   I
> realize
> >>> that wireless can be painful depending on the chipset.  Does someone
> have a
> >>> recommendation for a PCI or USB card that they've found easy to use
> with
> >>> Ubuntu?  In the meantime, I'll be studying the Ubuntu Hardware List[1]
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!  Dave
> >>>
> >>> [1]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported
> >>>
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