Which WLAN PCI card for amd64 Linux?

haimat

Hi all,

I am somewhat frustrated now, soon before giving up. I had a Netgear WG311v1 PCI card running fine with the madwifi drivers under my old 32 bit Gentoo installation, but after I bought my new computer and Windows Vista x64 (with dual boot, for gaming), I had to update to the new version of this Netgear card (WG311v3), because for the old version there are no 64 bit Vista drivers. Now this new card runs fine under Vista, but since this version uses another wifi chip than the old one, I can't get this to work under Linux amd64 (tried different things, see my other thread).

So, I think of just buying a new WLAN PCI card. My question to you now is: What brand and type of card can you suggest to me? I only want three things:
1. there should be native Vista x64 drivers for it
2. there should be native Linux amd64 drivers OR a 100% hassle-free installation under Linux amd64
3. WPA encryption support

Any suggestions?
Kind regards, Matthias

PS: a WLAN USB adapter that works under both Linux and Vista 64 bit would be ok for me as well

mirekm · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 9:45 am Post subject:

If you have windows drivers for that card, then you should try ndiswrapper. Use it with 64/32 bits drivers, depend of your gentoo architecture.

haimat · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:10 am Post subject:

I have already tried this, with several different drivers (32 and 64 bit).
No luck

mirekm · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject:

Do you have read on ndiswrapper homepage if your card is suppoerted?

haimat · Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

It seems as the card is supported (as told on Ndiswrapper homepage).
But I can't find a suitable driver for the amd64 platform

mirekm · Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 4:50 am Post subject:

Can you show lspci information with both numeric and text ID?

haimat · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 4:27 pm Post subject: