[gull] PCI Wifi

[Jean Pierre Rupp]

I don't speak French very well, but nevertheless I'll answer in English.

I have a Broadcom 4318, not the best card out there on Linux, although
it has a mature native driver available as module b43 in recent Kernel.

I also have experience with other cards, like the Intel ones, which are
very very well supported on Linux by native drivers, and Atheros cards,
which are by far the best supported by native partially open source
drivers (Madwifi).

I also know that Ralink cards also have native Linux drivers, although
last time I checked, it was a pain to configure them. But that was quite
a long time ago (3 years approx.).

Something to be aware of is that card vendors tend to build their
hardware using diferent chips on each model, and it's common that cards
made by a someone like D-Link will have Atheros and Broadcom chips, and
even others.

The best bet is to buy for a card that has an Atheros chipset. You can
take a look at the Ndiswrapper's Wiki in the hardware database find
models that use this chip. If your Linux distribution doesn't come with
the Madiwifi drivers, fetch them from their web.

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 12:50 +0200, Daniel Cordey wrote:
> 
> Quelqu'un a-t-il une experience (concluante) avec un modele de carte 802.11b/g 
> ne necssitant pas de ndiswraper ?