Hooray for the XG-900
"Zooko O'Whielacronx" <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:31:07 -0400
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If you want a PCI card that does 802.11g, I can happily recommend the XG-900. It has GPLed drivers (now included in the official Linux kernel), actively maintained. It interoperates with my LinkSys WRT 54g and my Apple Airport Extreme. I bought my XG-900 from zcomax.com. They gave me speedy service, a reasonable price and then threw in free shipping via UPS. I couldn't get the thing to behave properly at first, but this turned out to be IRQ conflicts. Once I got that straightened out everything just worked. Later I gave my XG-900 to my wife, who put it in her new Athlon workstation, installed Ubuntu Linux, and at the end of the install (which was quick and painless -- Hooray Ubuntu!) the wireless network was up and running. The only configuration question it asked her was "What's the name of the wireless network you want to join, or leave blank to join any.". Apparently wireless cards with Free Software drivers are a dying breed, so get your XG-900 today while they last! Regards, Zooko , who has no affiliation or financial benefit from zcomax.com or the XG-900 manufacturer