{"id":838,"date":"2008-10-31T16:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=838"},"modified":"2008-10-29T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T23:23:42","slug":"its-hard-to-buy-a-wifi-card-that-works-with-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/its-hard-to-buy-a-wifi-card-that-works-with-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s hard to buy a wifi card that works with Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently reorganized my home wireless network a bit, and the AP that I had been using connected to my Linux box stopped working. I wanted to replace it with an internal card but it&#8217;s annoyingly difficult to find a wifi card that works well with Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Various chipsets are supported with Free drivers but the trouble is that you can&#8217;t buy a card by chipset &#8211; you have to pick a card, research it to try to figure out what the chipset is and then see if it is supported. Even then there&#8217;s no guarantee because many manufacturers make several completely different cards with different chipsets and give them the same model number (which kind of defeats the point of a model number if you ask me). And the online shopping places don&#8217;t tell you the revision number of the card you&#8217;re buying.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I gave up trying to find one with Free drivers and settled on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833156165\">this one<\/a> which people seemed to be having success with. Indeed Ubuntu 8.04 recognized it straight away and connected to my network. Still, it&#8217;s annoying that it&#8217;s so difficult to buy a card for which Free drivers exist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently reorganized my home wireless network a bit, and the AP that I had been using connected to my Linux box stopped working. I wanted to replace it with an internal card but it&#8217;s annoyingly difficult to find a wifi card that works well with Linux. Various chipsets are supported with Free drivers but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}