Wireless Pcmcia Cards?

[infinitezero]

Which are the best wireless card for a laptop, native Linux drivers, I currently have a BCM1438.

[bytesniper]

i believe the only way to make any broadcom wireless cards work under linux is to use ndiswrapper. from my limited experiance with broadcom under linux using ndiswrapper its pretty stable, even if it is a pain to configure initially. i have a linksys wpc54g that i have never had a single problem with.

there are several natively supported wireless nic's under linux, but don't remember many of them off hand. I have a netgear wg511 (taiwan) that works very well. many cards with an atheros chipset works using madwifi (see http://atheros.rapla.net/).

here is an excellent wireless networking under linux document: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

hth,
joseph

[sej7278]

anything that uses the ralink rt2500 chipset, such as my Belkin F5D7010uk.

usually avoid broadcom - although i thought they were supposed to have a driver now?

atheros chips can use madwifi.

the agere orinoco gold used to be king, as it could use the kernel's orinoco_cs drivers, but i've seen some posts that that is broken these days (maybe they changed chipsets, like they did with the dlink dwl650).

[infinitezero]

Any thoughts on SMC cards or has anyone had experiance with them?