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Subject: Re: Wireless NIC recommendation
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Lars Stokholm wrote:
> Lars Stokholm wrote:
>> Hi, I hope someone can help me with this, before I go mad (no pun
>> intended.) :)
>>
>> I was initially looking for a relatively cheap 54Mbps, 802.11g- and
>> WPA-capable network card, based on an Atheros chipset, but after
>> spending the whole of last night looking for one - to no avail - I
>> gave up.
>>
>> I'm almost about to conclude that Atheros is not the way to go. So now
>> I want to know, if anyone can recommend ANY card, being cheap and
>> supporting the features mentioned above. I don't mind using NDIS, as
>> long as it works flawlessly. Also it would be good, if the card was a
>> popular one, so community support is more available.
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> Oops, forgot to add that it must be PCI.

I got a Trendnet pci ath card a while back and it worked fine.  Tested
it on sparc64 even.

	Sam