hardware recommendation: 64-bit friendly 802.11G PCI card??

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:25:04PM -0400, Christopher Friedt wrote:
> Can anyone recommend (from personal experience) an 802.11G PCI network 
> adapter that _definitely_ works in a 64-bit linux environment (i.e. 
> native linux source / drivers).
> 
> I purchased the TEW-423PI based on an earlier recommendation from the 
> list. However, to my surprise, it was not actually supported natively in 
> linux and only worked on 32 bit machines using ndiswrapper.
> 
> My first instinct tells me to go with a card using the rt2500 chip 
> (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) since that 
> seems to have actively maintained kernel source.
> 
> A list of cards using this chip is at http://ralink.rapla.net . The 
> cards that immediately jump out at me are
> 
> D-Link 		DWL-G510 rev C1
> Linksys 	WMP54G v4
> 
> out of several dozen devices.
> 
> Has anyone on the list used one of the cards that appear on 
> http://ralink.rapla.net with an AMD64 ? If so, can you recommend a card 
> to buy, or maybe a card not to buy?

I was playing with a dlink dwl-g650 rev c1 yesterday.  ubuntu detected
it as ath0, using the atheros driver.  I wonder if they still make/sell
that model.  It is in a friends laptop, and I think she has had it for a
couple of years now.

For what it is worth, the fsf recommends ralink based cards:
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html

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