[Ma-linux] Good wireless-N PCI card for master mode?

[jecottrell3 at comcast.net]

I just bought a Netgear card from MicroCenter and the madwifi driver works fine under Ubuntu 8.04 and later, as well as Fedora 10.

My strategy was to go to the Ubuntu Supported Hardware page, and look for what was supported, then look to see if anyone actually SOLD them. Unfortunately, most of the Linux Wifi pages are ancient and list cards that are no longer made (prism, orinoco, etc).

D-Link also has one or two that works too.

BTW, when I brought Fedora 10 up on my laptop at work, I had to copy the /lib/firmware/b43* from
the Ubuntu partition to the Fedora partition.

I haven't tried it with other Linuxi yet, but I know the card works with those two. And it also works out of the box, just incase you want to do a network install.

I will post a followup tonight with the exact card number.

JIM

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miguel González Castaños" <miguel_3_gonzalez at yahoo.es>
To: Ma-linux at calypso.tux.org
Sent: Monday, June 8, 2009 1:09:21 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [Ma-linux] Good wireless-N PCI card for master mode?

John Jasen wrote:
> I want to experiment with wireless some more, basically at this time,
> trying to integrate my wireless network on my firewall, and then use
> LDAP-backed radius to allow access. I still have no idea how to do WPA2
> with this, but I guess it'll be fun!
>
> Apparently, I need a wireless card that supports iwconfig master mode.
> Any suggestions?
>
>   
Last time I did the same thing with a wireless-G PCI card I used the 
madwifi driver. They were on the process to change the firmware to 
become open source, but I don't know the current status about N cards.

One question: Do you have so many N-enabled devices?

Miguel

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