[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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