[ALUG] Wireless NICs

Matthew matthew at aleaiactaest.com
Thu Jun 7 22:52:23 BST 2007


Hi all,

I'd like to play with hostapd to use a wireless interface card as a 
access point, but the application currently supports a fairly limited 
range of drivers. Having tried to research a range of prospective cards 
I found one (D-link DWL-G510) that seemed to have the right chipset. I 
bought it only to find that I actually have the revision with the same 
chipset as my existing card.

Most of the common cards have either the wrong chipset or have a variety 
of revisions which makes them troublesome to buy. Can anyone recommend a 
reliable way of acquiring an 802.11g card that uses one of the following 
drivers?
# Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3
# madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
# Prism54.org (Prism GT/Duette/Indigo)

I'm now using the tables at http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ to check 
chipsets, but if anyone can suggest any others that might help.

If anyone has such a card spare (or would mind risk swapping it out for 
another) I'd gladly trade an equivalent one that uses the rt61 driver 
(or rt2x00, if you're on a recent enough kernel to use it).

Thanks,
Matthew



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