Wireless card that just works...

[Brad Palmer]

Hi Scott,

What card(s) are you / have you been trying. I have used a variety of 
different USB / PCMCIA wireless nics in my lappie all with no real problem.

Are you on a laptop or a PC, what brand etc.

If you are on a pc, some of the Netgear NICs (using the Atherous 
chipset) have problems, especially with compatability with VIA chipsets.

More info here will really help the group help you.

Also

Try this page for WPA. The /etc/network/interfaces stage is important.

http://en.magenson.de/2006/06/11/ubuntu-dapper-drake-and-wpa-encrypted-wireless/

Here is the important part from the page.

In short: *Nine seven steps to WPA encrypted Wifi with Ubuntu Dapper Drake*:

   1. |sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant| (might already be installed)
   2. (You might have to do a |sudo apt-get update| in order to fetch
      the newest metadata for apt-get)
   3. |sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome|
   4. |sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces| — Comment out everything but
      “|lo|” entries in that file
   5. Create a file called |/etc/default/wpasupplicant|, add entry
      |ENABLED=0|
   6. Reboot your system
   7. Left-click the network manager icon in Gnome and select your
      wireless network
   8. Follow the prompts for password, type, etc.
   9. It will ask you to choose a password for your new “keyring”.
  10. Be happy ;)

L8tr, mate and good luck
Brad

Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Having just spent the last several hours grinding through various madwifi 
> how-to's trying to get my existing wireless card working, getting to the end 
> of the process and getting ... nothing.
>
> I give.
>
> Would someone please recommend an 802.11 card (preferably a/b/g, but I'll take 
> what I can get) that just works.  WPA is a hard and fast requirement.  I'll 
> futz around with that to make it work, but I'd like to get the basic 
> networking out of the way without any recompiling of kernels or another 
> several hours wasted.
>
> I'd rather not spend more than necessary, but I'm more interested in working, 
> easy, reliable than cheap.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott K
>
>