On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 05:51 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Patrick wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Did some googling but mostly found laptop related WiFi posts and info. > > Anyone know (where to find a list of) WiFi PCI cards for in a normal PC > > that are compatible out of the box with FC4 and Hostap (preferrably non > > ndiswrapper and linuxant)? > > I don't know that a current list exists. > > > I download the windows drivers and inspect the package to see what's > inside the package; it tells me what chipset's used. > > I have two prism54-based cards, those work well. > My laptop has Atheros inside; that's fine and SUSE & Ubuntu support it > out of the box; on FC you might need to build a driver, but it's not > hard if you are into that sort of thing. > > TI and Broadcom I avoid. > > Note: > D-link labels some of its products to tell you what's inside; it uses > both TI and Atheros, > > I researched some TP-Links cards yesterday, the ones I found have Atheros. > > Sometimes the packaging can give clues, some of the terms used are (I > think) trademarks, so if you find two brands of card using the same > funny capitilsation or made-up words they likely use the same chipset. Thanks for the tips John. Very useful. Regards, Patrick
