Wireless PCMCIA or USB recommendations

[Kevin Kempter]

On Thursday 11 October 2007 23:11:51 Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Friday 12 October 2007, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> > Hi list;
> >
> > I have a friend who bought an HP laptop with a built-in broadcom chip. We
> > wiped the pile of rubbish referred to as vista off the laptop and put
> > Kubuntu on it. Of course the wireless (a broadcom built in) didn't work
> > so I installed the ndiswrapper.
> >
> > It seemed to work fine at first but then over the next few weeks
> > ndiswrapper started to crash more and more often. My son hapened to bring
> > it up while talking to a windows tech support geek and he said that the
> > wireless chips in most of the vista laptops have been engineered
> > specifically (and exclusively) for the load of rubbish referred to as
> > vista, so it doesn't play nice with any other OS by design.  I don't know
> > for sure if this is true but I do know that ndiswrapper is crashing a lot
> > and the owner of this laptop is a linux newbie which makes things worse.
> >
> > I wonder, can anyone make a recommendation for a wireless PCMCIA or
> > wireless USB device that will play nice with kubuntu and be reliable?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
>
> I'm using a Netgear WG511T  pcmcia  with feisty.   Works fine.

Are you using ndiswrapper with this card?