a question regarding wireless adapters - mostly linksys.

nighty

hi there,

im doing a project which will utilize wireless adapters on linux so i need it working with minimal friction. from what i know wireless adapters utilizing atheros chipsets have very good support in linux and have been successfully used in similar projects.

to my knowledge dlink and netgear use the atheros chip in their wireless network adapters but i was told that the desktops ill be getting for the project has linksys adapters unless i ask otherwise. ive researched and seen that linksys use atheros in some of their chips. but they dont specify it in their products so i was wondering from the user or a developer perspective if anyone knows whether current card utilize those chips and if they can name such a model.

in general, do you know of any wireless adapter that uses the "ath_pci" kernel module?

many thanks.

nahpets · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

I know that the Linksys Wireless G PCMCI card (WPC54G) uses the atheros chipset on the newer versions, 2.0 I think. The 1.1 versions use a Broadcom chipset and you need to use 'ndiswrapper' to get it to work under Linux.

I've got an Atheros based D-Link PCI card that works perfectly with the madwifi drivers too. Check out this link for more madwifi compatible cards:

http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
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nighty · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject:

thanks for the reply. i was wondering, is it possible to work with multiple adapters using madwifi?

nahpets · Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 10:49 pm Post subject:

I've never done it, but I don't see why not. Just like you can have eth0, eth1 for network cards, you should be able to have ath0, ath1 for wireless cards.
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