Re: Good Experience with Debian Squeeze

On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 20:55 -0600, healy wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 20:58 -0600, Trev Peterson wrote:
> > What I do is go to newegg.com (or whatever vendor you want, ones
> > catering to tech people usually provide more info) and see what is says.
> > For example:
> > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320048
> > 
> > under "system requirements" it says: Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Linux
> > Kernel 2.26.29
> > This seems to indicate the driver is in kernel as of 2.6.29.  I would
> > still google "chipset asus PCE-N13" and see what you find.  The first
> > page of hits pulled up a several links that confirmed it seems to work
> > well under linux.  If not at least you can get the chipset and then
> > google the chipset and linux kernel drivers.  I've done this for several
> > wifi cards and it's always worked rather well for me.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 19:31 -0500, Fhealy wrote:
> > 
> > > > Does anyone have a list of wireless cards that work well with Debian or
> > > > Ubuntu?
> > Trev Peterson
> > Advanced Reality
> > Email: [email protected]
> > Phone: +1 847 406 9018
> > 
> Thanks.  I went on new-egg and found this card (pci not pci express).  I
> ordered two of them and will let you know what happened.
> 
The Asus PCI card installed and configured the first time in an existing
Ubuntu 10.04 install.  I haven't tried a fresh install yet.  The system
has a removable drive so I tried to set the same card up under windows.
The windows utility is pretty crude.

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