A good desktop Wi-Fi card for Fedora 10

[William M. Quarles]

Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, William M. Quarles 
> <walrus at bellsouth.net <mailto:walrus at bellsouth.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Does anybody know of a good desktop PCI wireless ethernet card that
>     I can buy and use with Fedora 10? I bought a new OEM HP
>     Atheros-based wireless card, but it conflicts with my Sigma Designs
>     REALMagic Hollywood Plus DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card, both in Windows XP
>     Pro and in Fedora 10. Also, since I am trying to do a dual-boot
>     setup, I couldn't get good drivers for Windows XP for the card. Any
>     ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     William
> 
> 
> I don't currently use Wi-Fi on my desktop(s)... since I cabled my home 
> with five gigabit-ethernet sockets per room. :-)
> 
> But when I did use Wi-Fi, I used cardbus cards hooked to pci-to-cardbus 
> adapters.
> 
> Here's some:
> 
> Addonics ADPCICB2 - $49
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00023LTKK?ie=UTF8&tag=mnmsprst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00023LTKK 
> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00023LTKK?ie=UTF8&tag=mnmsprst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B00023LTKK>
> 
> And
> D-Link A/G Wi-Fi Cardbus adapter - $11.78
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001PFO3C?ie=UTF8&tag=mnmsprst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0001PFO3C 
> <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001PFO3C?ie=UTF8&tag=mnmsprst-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0001PFO3C>
> 
> Total: $60.78
> 
> This also gives you the flexibility of exchanging Wi-Fi cards when new 
> standards arrive, or exchanging cards in case of trouble, without 
> opening up the case.
> 
> (Cardbus cards are, for all intents and purposes, the same as PCI)

Well, except for the fact you can remove a Cardbus adapter while the 
computer is still running with little trouble.

Thanks for the tip, but I'd still be much more interested in a PCI 
card... although I do have the urge to add a Cardbus adapter later for a 
professional recording Cardbus sound card, so that I can also use the 
card on my laptop. I think that you might have overpaid for that 
PCI=to-Cardbus adaptor though, I could have sworn that I have seen them 
at a lower price before.

Does anybody out there know of some good PCI wireless netowkring cards 
that aren't Atheros-based?

Thanks,
William

> Of course, there's also USB Wi-Fi dongles but in my experience those 
> don't match the range of cardbus cards (antenna design, or power limits, 
> perhaps?).