[Discuss] PCI Wireless Adapter

[Murray Strome]

John Blomfield wrote:
> I have been struggling all afternoon to get an ASUS WL 138G V2 
> wireless PCI adapter card to work in my old computer that I want to 
> move to another room (no wired connect available).  Googling turned up 
> all sorts of Linux problems with this card (it works on XP).  I even 
> tried the driver from Linuxant and they want $20 after 30 days but 
> that doesn't work so they won't get their money!
>
> Before I take this WL 138G back to the shop and exchange it for 
> something else, does anyone have any solutions?  If not does anyone 
> know a PCI card that does work on Linux?  As yet I have not found a 
> reference to one that works!
>
> To save time I have tried all the usual stuff with NetworkManager but 
> not ndiswrapper.  Incidentally Linuxant uses some sort of wrapper 
> around the Windows driver.
>
> John Blomfield
>
The Intel wireless card in my laptop works well with Kubuntu.  I think 
Intel has tried to work with the LINUX community to provide drivers for 
their wireless cards/chips. I have no idea if you can buy a card with 
the Intel hardware on it.  I have a USB Wireless card, but have never 
tried it. I also have a card that worked fine on Windows XP but I could 
never get it going with LINUX.

Murray