[Discuss] PCI Wireless Adapter

[John Blomfield]

Lionel Widdifield wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:49:02AM -0800, John Blomfield wrote:
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>> Dlink products are also readily available.  I shall 
>> trade in my old card which I got from DTI. They are also happy to do 
>> that and keep me a happy customer.
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>  As a note, you might wish to double check the chipset on the card as Dlink
> is notorious for changing products and reusing product names.
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The Dlink WDA 2320 is reported to have the Atheros chip set but the 
Dlink site does not give this information so I don't know how one can 
check without inspecting the card physically?

John
>> My research tells me that the driver for the Dlink card is from 
>> madwiki.org and I see my distro has kmod_madwifi packages for download.  
>> Is this the driver you used?
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>  In my case, I knew wireless was problematic so when I built my new kernel
> for the machine. Standard practice for me. I downloaded the driver source
> and built my own version of the drivers.
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>  As can be seen from http://madwifi.org/ new drivers were released on Feb
> 13th. If you're using the distro's kernel, I'ld try the distro package
> first. If you've built your own kernel, download and build your own modules.
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