PCI-E wireless

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:24:24AM -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> It seems that I'm going to be testing a laptop that ships with a VIA 
> wireless card. This chipset is reported to have problems with its Linux 
> driver (whose problems start with ambiguous licensing).
> 
> So it seems I may be in the market for a wireless mini PCI-E card. So H 
> have two questions;
> 
> - Intel, Atheros or something else? (Intended platform: Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04)
> 
> - Does anywhere in Toronto sell them? The best I've found so far is mail 
> order from Vancouver.

And does the laptop allow you to swap out the card?  Some brands/models
do not allow booting with another wifi card installed.

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Len Sorensen
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