Ubuntu PCMCIA wireless card


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Hello!

I need to get a wireless PCMCIA card (preferably 11g, but 11b will be fine) that will be guaranteed to work out-of-box with the new Ubuntu 8.04 release (11 days!). I'm looking to sell an ultra-portable laptop and i feel i need to include a wireless card with it.

Can anyone give me a recommended card that will have drivers included with it that i can use with my laptop and ubuntu. I don't want one with restricted drivers (ive got a linksys one that isn't working at the moment).

Thanks for help!

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Atheros and Netgear are common and work fine with madwifi. Dont take a wireless N-pre or you will have to upgrade madwifi (the beta include it since 1 years, but change never go mainstream).

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Atheros is a chip manufacturer. Netgear makes wireless cards. I've got 2 cards that have Atheros chips, they don't always work out of the box. I would look for a card that uses Broadcom or a Ralink chip. That will involve some research on your part. Google is your friend.

That said, if it were me buying an ultra portable laptop, or any laptop at that, I wouldn't want a PCMCIA card sticking out the side that I need to insert/remove all the time. For the same price, possibly less you can get an internal card. That is if the laptop supports it.

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That said, if it were me buying an ultra portable laptop, or any laptop at that, I wouldn't want a PCMCIA card sticking out the side that I need to insert/remove all the time. For the same price, possibly less you can get an internal card. That is if the laptop supports it.

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No need for an external card, as there are a whole host of support integrated cards. My laptop has the Intel Wireless 4965AGN Draft-N Wi-Fi network adapter (Asus f3sv-a1) and it works out the box

with Ubuntu.

This is a list of supposedly supported cards : https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/...sCardsSupported I am not sure if it's up to date.

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If it supported internal ones, i'd have got one already! I bought a ralink rt2500 based one because of the compatibility with ubuntu. Just testing it now! Thanks for help guys :)

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