Re:me too!! (Score 1)

I've also recently tried to build a server with a pci wifi card in it but it was a pain to find a good and well-supported card under linux. After deciding that the Atheros chipset had "not bad" support, I decided to get this card. I haven't managed to make it work properly however. It doesn't seem to find my access point unless I force it to, and the other problem is that the txpower (transmission power) of the card is very low on linux. I get only about 30/100 strength when the machine is right next to the access point!

The main reason I got this card is because it is the ONLY card from among a FEW that I found that purported to support WPA! I couldn't believe that most of the pci cards available in general only seemed to support upto 128-bit WEP, unless I have been looking in the wrong place or something.

I also have a 1.5 year old ASUS Centrino laptop that now works beautifully out-of-the-box with Ubuntu Breezy! Mind you, I still had to compile some modules to get WPA working, but SUSE 9.3 onwards or so has WPA on this laptop working as well from a fresh install with no tweaking.

As per the original poster, I was thinking about buying this Intel Mini-PCI adapter instead. I've been out of the loop a bit lately, but I think you can buy an adapter that will allow you to plug in a mini-pci card onto a normal pci slot? If so, then I might exchange my Netgear with this, that should work much better.