[TriLUG] Wireless Cards

Dan trilug at daijin.router5.com
Wed Jul 19 14:24:49 EDT 2006


Brian McCullough wrote:
> I am looking for a wireless ( CardBus or PCMCIA ) card ( I suppose even
> a USB dongle ) for my ThinkPad ( 600E ) that will work with our
> favourite operating system ( preferably natively, not ndiswrapper ).  Of
> course, I also want it yesterday, locally, and as cheap as possible.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> I was over at Tiger, and it appeared that most of the devices that they
> had claimed to work with ndiswrapper, but....
> 

FWIW, I've had the Linksys WPC54G working with WPA-PSK under both Ubuntu
5.10 and 6.06 using ndiswrapper with no problems.  I wrestled with the
native driver and NetworkManager under Dapper for a couple of weeks
before going back to ndiswrapper.

Dan



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