ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 45, Issue 374

[Chris Rees]

>> Does anyone have any pcmcia wireless cards that work with native drivers
>> in Linux? I am currently working on a project where we want to do some
>> wireless sensor stuff and would love to keep it all native (and easy to
>> support)
>
> You should probably look for cards that use the Atheros chipsets.  If
> you have the MadWiFi driver installed, any of these should simply work
> "out of the box".

Forget Atheros, get a Ralink based one, they actually do work right
out of the box, on nearly all Free operating systems now.

The brand to buy to guarantee a Ralink is Edimax (though _some_ Belkin
and Linksys do, but the Belkins don't any more).

Edimax are cheap too!

Chris