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Old 03-30-2008, 02:54 PM
colo colo is offline
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Exclamation Shopping recommendation: miniPCI WLAN 802.11g

Hello all,

I'm looking our for a new miniPCI-Wifi-Adapter for my venerable IBM Thinkpad T40 (the CMOS is already patched to to allow for arbitrary adapters to be used). Right now, I'm using a RaLink RT2561/RT61-based device, but rx/tx-quality isn't as fine as I'd expected, i. e. never exceeding roughly 1MiB/s in either direction, regardless of connection quality.

So here I'm standing know, scratching my head and pondering about the alternatives. I do want stable and fast rx/tx for 802.11g (with WPA2 encryption) and drivers integrated in the vanilla kernel. Options that I have in mind right now are:

Intel 2200
Intel 2915
Broadcom BCM4318

Can anyone please provide me with personal experience reports with these chipsets involved?

Thanks in advance, cheers!
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Old 03-31-2008, 01:52 AM
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Intel 2915
Da muss man nichts mehr dazu sagen ;-)
Intel hardware support in Linux is currently unmatched IMO.
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