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    x64 friendly wireless cards

    I have two wireless cards, BOTH of which do not work in x64

    One is a Netgear WG-311v3 and the other is a USB Netgear WG-111v2

    Right now I'm using the WG-311v3 in 32 bit Jaunty with ndiswrapper and it works like a charm. I need to upgrade to 64-bit in order to use all my RAM. I tried googling but couldn't really figure out if either card will work under 64-bit Ubuntu or not. I'm going to just assume neither of them work. Can anyone using either of these adapters confirm/deny?

    If they indeed won't work in x64 ubuntu, then can someone recommend me a nice CHEAP wireless card that will work OUT OF THE BOX in Jaunty? If I'm going to ditch a perfectly functioning adapter for a new one simply due to driver issues, might as well get one that sets up the easiest as possible...

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    Re: x64 friendly wireless cards

    Have you tried using Ndiswrapper on x64?

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    Re: x64 friendly wireless cards

    Quote Originally Posted by The Toxic Mite View Post
    Have you tried using Ndiswrapper on x64?
    In order to use ndiswrapper in x64, you must first find an x64 driver, which does not exist (at least to my knowledge).

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    Re: x64 friendly wireless cards

    I have a Linksys WMP54G v4.1 which works fine with the rt61pci driver (should work out of the box). But as always with computers ymmv.

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