[Discuss] PCI Wireless Adapter

[John Blomfield]

Murray Strome wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks but I'm looking for a PCI card.  My Intel laptop works fine too!

John


> Murray
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