[plug] N-Wireless pci network card

[Daniel Pittman]

William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> writes:
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 13:55 +0800, Lucas van Staden wrote:
>> William Kenworthy wrote:
>> > My sony laptop has an intel chipset - supported in the kernel (no
>> > drivers needed, though I needed a firmware package from somewhere ... -
>> > works very well.
>>
>> That sounds promising, do you know what the chipset is, or what the card
>> mode/name is?

...you are unlikely to find one that isn't designed for embedded use, such as
mini-PCI, as far as I know.  Intel don't seem to sell discrete components
much, at least at the consumer level.

> iw2200bg - its an older chipset now, but the newer ones are also
> supported and I have not heard anything bad about them (yet :)  See
> http://intellinuxwireless.org/ for others

The IWL4965 has an issue with instability in the firmware causing it to hang
every now and then, but the Intel wireless chipsets are generally reasonable.

Regards,
        Daniel
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