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[ILUG] Best WIFI card for linux?

[ILUG] Best WIFI card for linux?

James Galvin james at jamesgalvin.net
Thu Jan 17 12:32:08 GMT 2008


Had two copies of that same dongle myself, I needed ndiswrapper to get 
both of them working, but that was over a year ago so I guess the 
support has improved since or else the hardware has changed.

James


Michael Watterson wrote:
> Paul Mullen wrote:
>> On Thu 17 Jan 2008, Conor Wynne wrote:
>>  
>>> I am sure this has been answered before, but in case something new has
>>> been released since the last advice.
>>>
>>> What is 100% OSS and 100% sure to work with full encryption with linux?
>>>
>>> I need one really quickly for a friends kids bedroom PC.
>>> PCI or USB is fine
>>>
>>> The use of windows drivers is not acceptable, neither is OSS drivers
>>> without encryption -- I already have two cards which do that and no
>>> encryption = worse than useless.
>>>     
>> I bought one of these from PC World on spec a couple of weeks ago and 
>> it worked out of the box with Kubuntu Gutsy and WPA2 Enterprise and 
>> WPA2 PSK.
>>
>> http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=322316
>>
>>   
> There are three completely different versions of that USB dongle. One 
> Dixons' even had all three. I've even taken them apart. Definitely 3 
> HWs with different drivers.
>



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