USB 802.11g wireless adapter for Linux

Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported
by the Linux kernel?

I am running the latest Debian testing on i386. Currently I use a
device supported by ndiswrapper & the windows driver but this situation
isn't ideal. For example I have to reinstate the kernel module every
time I upgrade the kernel. And the windows drivers are non-free. And
it's all a bit delicate in terms of stability.

I've spent quite a lot of time on a search engine (google) reading up
on linux wireless support and reviewing the archives of mailing lists
and Usenet. I've uncovered some hardware compatibility lists &
discussions but up-to-date recommendations seem to be rare. Information
from 2004 is clearly not going to help me with chipsets changing as
quickly as they do!

If it makes any difference to the availability of hardware I'm in the
UK but happy to order online anything that would work.

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers,
Andrew.

Hello Andrew,

> Can anyone recommend an 802.11g USB wireless adapter which is supported
> by the Linux kernel?

Yeah, it's a pity that so many vendors don't care about Linux support.
But there are some cards which work fine with Linux native.

I think the best thing is to buy a card with Prism GT chipset. This is
best supported chipset for Linux. Older Prism 2/3 chipset ist only for
802.11b.

My card has a RT2500 chipset. This works fine, too, and is easy to
install. You may be free to buy any card with the RT2x00 chipsets...
Have a look at the project page for details.

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page


To find out which card has which chipset go to www.linux-wlan.org best.

Hopefully this is helpful for you
Daniel Böhmer