[SGVLUG] any recommendations - pci wifi card for linux

[acidrein]

Of course, Y.M.M.V...

I'm using a generic (Zonet) 802.11b/g PCMCIA card with a Ralink chip 
set. I had to compile ( http://www.bb-zone.com/misc/rt2500/ ) the driver 
module for earlier versions of SuSE, but the card was supported "out of 
the box" by SuSE 9.3.

Ralink provides the driver source code here:

http://www.ralink.com.tw/supp-1.htm

And a list of hardware is here:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware
and here:
http://ralink.rapla.net/

*Warning: Watch for the card vendors changing chip sets without notice!*

Main project page:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Hope this helps,
Michael

matti wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Ok! - I'm looking for a pci wifi card
>which works well with linux ..
>
>does anyone have any recommendations?
>
>it should be a card that I can pickup
>locally in a store.. today or tomorrow...
>
>(so far we've had no luck getting a netgear
>wg311 working.. perhaps someone has advice
>on getting that card to work.. )
>
>thanks!
>matti
>  
>
and Mike wrote:

> I'm interested also.
>
> I need to get 50 802.11g cards (that only need to work with windows xp 
> initially) over the next couple weeks for a company that leases space 
> from a building that provides ethernet ports (up to three to each 
> cube), but at $50 per port per month.  They'd rather spend the money 
> on expansion than on ethernet ports and phones.
>
> Anyone know of any open source friendly wifi card manufacturers?  
> Price isn't too much of an issue since so much is to be saved, but it 
> is a reasonable concern.
>
> From my research, wifi support (as in GPL drivers) is relegated to old 
> chipsets and ndiswrapper (hey, at least the module is GPL!)
>
> Mike