[TriLUG] 802.11g WiFi Card recomendations

[Cristobal Palmer]

Oooo ooo. I lied. I tried gizmo (sipphone client) on the laptop, with
HIGH-larious results. Incoming audio sounded like the chipmunks. The
person on the other end reported whalesong from me.

-CMP

On 1/8/06, Cristobal Palmer <cristobalpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll give madwifi another (tepid) recommendation... the range with the
> two madwifi cards I've tried (one notebook, one desktop) has been
> rather wimpy when working with an 802.11b access point. No major
> complaints when working with a g access point, but I haven't tried
> VoIP or other heaviness on either of the wireless machines.
>
> Still, I was able to get madwifi up with relatively little fuss under
> Debian and Ubuntu, and I certainly haven't seen anything like the
> ugliness you're describing.
>
> -CMP
>
> On 1/8/06, Kevin Sonney <kevin at sonney.com> wrote:
> > So it appears my WG511T card is unhappy. Unhappy enough to kernel trap
> > and cause disruptions across the entire WiFi [1] network in my house
> > (yeah, that's unhappy). [2]
> >
> > So now I'm in the market for a new 802.11G[3] PCMCIA (Or USB - I'm
> > open to using USB for this) adapter. What is the rest of the LUG
> > having success with?
> >
> > Footnotes :
> > [1] Yes, I know, Mr. Neuse, you've had bad luck with WiFi. Please
> > don't re-iterate.
> > [2] Yes, I tried $DRIVER, $PACKAGE, and $CONFIG to get it working.
> > It's $INTERCOURSED, and I have to spend money.
> > [3] Yes, I know, OSS purists, 802.11G mostly bad since there are no
> > fully OSS compliant/certified drivers and the companies in question
> > aren't playing ball and hate Linux.
> >
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> Cristobal M. Palmer
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>


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Cristobal M. Palmer
UNC-CH SILS Student
cristobalpalmer at gmail.com
cmpalmer at ils.unc.edu
ils.unc.edu/~cmpalmer
"Television-free since 2003"