Please recommend a wireless G Card

[Lee Revell]

On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 18:21 -0500, Home wrote:
> Hello Eric,
> 
> >... how I got my wifi to work was with ndiswrapper.
> 
> Then the question becomes, does the Ubuntu install include ndiswrapper?
> 
> If I have to *download* NDISwrapper, I won't be able to until the WIFI
> works, but the WIFI won't work until I get NDISWrapper, but I can't
> get NDIS until...
> 
> 
> Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

Even if Ubuntu came with ndiswrapper, you still need the Windows drivers
for your card, which Ubuntu can't legally distribute.

ndiswrapper is not a great solution - try to get a natively supported
card, like an Intel IPW2100 or IPW2200 chipset, or one of the old
Prism54 devices.  The next best choice is something that works with
MadWifi - it's a native driver but requires a proprietary kernel module.
The last choice is ndiswrapper - a hack to allow running Windows drivers
under linux.

Sorry I can't list a specific device, you'll have to Google to find an
exact make and model with one of the above chipsets.

Lee