[CLUE-Tech] seeking wireless card

[bof]

Jim Ockers wrote:

>Hi BOF,
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>>I bought a Linksys WPC55AG 802.11a/g wireless notebook card (somewhere I 
>>had seen it as Linux-compatible) but, alas, it does not seem to be 
>>recognized by Fedora Core 2.  Has anyone been able to get this card 
>>working under Linux?
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>>Additionally, would anyone recommend other 802.11g wireless cards that 
>>are Linux friendly?
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>I'm not sure about your card but I've had good success with 802.11a/b/g
>hardware using Atheros chipsets and the madwifi Linux driver.
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>www.atheros.com
>madwifi.sourceforge.net
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>If I remember correctly.  Atheros has a page listing WLAN hardware that
>they know of which contains their silicon.
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Thanx to all who replied. The WPC55AG card has the Atheros chipset, so 
by using madwifi I was able to get it up and running.

As a side note, this month's talk at CLUE-North was about wireless 
security and how many users do not change anything from the defaults. 
With my system, I found on channel 6, three other networks, none using 
any encryption at all, and one using linksys-g (the default) as the SSID.

BOF