what wireless nic do you recommend?

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Hi, everybody. I'm running fedora core 5, and soon, probably
6. I'm
looking for a reliable wireless pci nic at a good price. The
cheaper,
the better, but i'm willing to pay up a little if it works
perfectly,
with a minimum of installation hassle. I prefer that it have
excellent
native driver support, but i'll live with it if it works
with
ndiswrapper. For security, it should support wpa-personal
with tkip, at
a minimum. I emphasize: i want it to work reliably; i don't
want to have
to mess around with dropped connections, flaky
authentication, or
whacked-out, time-consuming configuration or
reconfiguration. I'm
looking for as close to that happy::it-just-works experience
as i can
get. You boot it up, and, once (painlessly) installed and
configured, it
works without having to think about it. Ever.

I have a couple of marvell chipset nics that used to work
halfway
decently with ndiswrapper, but something must've changed in
the wireless
extensions support, because now wpa-personal doesn't work
with the
wireless tools and/or ndiswrapper with these cards anymore
in fc5,
whether i use the rpm-packaged software or the
latest-and-greatest from
source. Transcieving in the clear is just not cool.

So... what make/model should i buy?

thanks in advance,
- gabriel

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Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
> looking for a reliable wireless pci nic at a good
price. The cheaper,
> the better, but i'm willing to pay up a little if it
works perfectly,
> with a minimum of installation hassle. I prefer that it
have excellent

I use a mini-PCI Intel 2915ABG card in a mini-PCI to PCI
adaptor.

the former are GBP20 or maybe US$35 on ebay. the latter vary
according
to features (number of antenna sockets, lights, etc) but are
typically
GBP15 or US$25. An example would be:
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-pci-slot-solwise.htm

I believe you can also use a PCI to cardbus adaptor and a
pcmcia card,
but I have never tested this... see miniitx page
http://www.mini-it
x.com/store/?c=9


I use the patched IPW2200 driver on suse10.1, so as to
enable monitor
mode, and it works fine with kismet, airodump, etc. It's
mainly used at
home on my linux firewall in ad-hoc mode.

HTH

-- 
Paul
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Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
> looking for a reliable wireless pci nic at a good
price. The cheaper,
> the better, but i'm willing to pay up a little if it
works perfectly,
> with a minimum of installation hassle. I prefer that it
have excellent

I use a mini-PCI Intel 2915ABG card in a mini-PCI to PCI
adaptor.

the former are GBP20 or maybe US$35 on ebay. the latter vary
according
to features (number of antenna sockets, lights, etc) but are
typically
GBP15 or US$25. An example would be:
http://www.solwise.co.uk/wireless-pci-slot-solwise.htm

I believe you can also use a PCI to cardbus adaptor and a
pcmcia card,
but I have never tested this... see miniitx page
http://www.mini-it
x.com/store/?c=9


I use the patched IPW2200 driver on suse10.1, so as to
enable monitor
mode, and it works fine with kismet, airodump, etc. It's
mainly used at
home on my linux firewall in ad-hoc mode.

HTH

-- 
Paul
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