--- On Thu, 8/28/08, Matthew Copple [email protected] wrote:
My son is finally learning to read, and it is time to put a computer in his room. Unfortunately, we live in a hundred-year old house, and the idea of threading several feet of cat5 through bedroom and hallway is not appealing. I am putting Edubuntu on it for him.
Does anyone have suggestions for a cheap, Linux compatible wireless card? I prefer an A/B/G card that is WPA compatible. I prefer a USB device if possible, but I won't quibble if PCI is cheaper. I really don't want to deal with ndiswrapper.
Any suggestions?
About four months ago I posted about Microcenter selling just such a Linux-compatible wireless PCI card, supporting wireless standards A/B/G/N and also WPA, for only $19.99. This one worked out of the box on Ubuntu 7.10, and didn't stop working when I upgraded the whole system to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS today. Microcenter still had at least a dozen left last week, and the boxes still aren't shrink-wrapped so you can verify the chipset yourself.
The Free Software Foundation recommends (among others) the RALink-based network card chipset. It works great on the rt2500 driver.
--- On Wed, 4/23/08, Leo Mauler [email protected] wrote:
I was browsing through the wireless network cards at Microcenter (93rd & Metcalf) and came across a "generic" (or at least "no brand name") wireless card for $19.99. The chipset is a RA2561T, the "AWI-926T" model name seems to indicate that it is an "Amigo" network card.
It does 802.11g and 802.11n, and when I got it home Ubuntu found it and used the RALink driver with no difficulty getting it to connect to my 802.11g wireless router. Cards using the RALink driver are among those recommended by the Free Software Foundation.
I thought I'd mention this in case anyone is looking for a cheap, Linux-compatible, FSF-recommended chipset wireless PCI card. It is one of the few boxes which isn't shrink-wrapped so you can verify the chipset for yourself (if you like).