I need a suggestion for a new wireless card.

FcukThisGame · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 776 Location: /lost+found

My current linksys wmp11 pci card is losing signal and soon to die.

I'd like to replace it / upgrade to a g (ok i dont remember if it's b or g that runs the 54mbit, but that's the one i want obviously)

The three things i'm looking for in a wireless card:
linux compatibility (so i'm limited to PCI, maybe certain chipsets..)
price point (<$50 usd if possible)
and range... actually I don't really care about range.. just the one i have now is horrible. i'm 20 feet from the router, although through walls... but i get one bar of signal, where the other computer on a usb card gets 2 bars, and that's about 50 feet away...

is there a really good chipset or card in general that just plays really nicely with linux?
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justwantstohelp · Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject:

I like the atheros driver, so I'd recommend any of these: http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
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FcukThisGame · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 776 Location: /lost+found

Okay, just bought a new one today (my connection completely died, so i couldn't reference the atheros list, but luckily enough it's on the atheros chipset. It's a D-link DWL-G510 rev B pci card.

got it for $30 usd at radioshack on clearance.

Now comes the fun part.

I haven't the slightest clue as to how to configure the card. I know that it's an open network, ssid linksys.
I know that the card is in the same pci slot as my old card.

My old card ran one of the prism chipsets (2.5 i think...not sure though)

I have the gentoo-sources kernel, which I'd doubt would have any drivers working, although I believe I compiled support in for the atheros chipsets. My older kernel is the livecd-kernel, which I'd expect to recognize it for me to compile a new one with support.

Thanks for the advice