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Asus P5B Deluxe or Asus P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP
Date: Wed Jun 27 2007 - 14:44:28 EDT
Hi All!
I am thinking about assembling a new debian amd64 computer. With recommendations on amd64 list I settled on a Core 2 Duo processor with one of Asus P5B flavour motherboards.
The new box will be on the second floor and it needs to be connected to the network on the first floor. Cables won't work. So, I need to use wireless for that. Therefore I was thinking about ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP. Is wireless on this board going to work with debian amd64 ? I tried googling but didn't find any information on that matter. With google I found out, though, that the WiFi-AP on that board is based on some Realtek RTL chipset, and to make it work I will probably need ndiswrapper. Does anybody here have this board and uses the wireless on it with Debian amd64 ? Does it work ? Does it work solely with ndiswrapper ? Are there, then, 64bit drivers for it ? Or does it work with linux without ndiswrapper ? Since I won't be able to connect to the network with cables through ethernet, I want to be very sure that wireless on that board will work well on debian amd64 ?
The other option is to go with ASUS P5B Deluxe that doesn't include the WiFi-AP and buy an additional PCI or USB WiFi card. After reading some recommendations on this list it seems that Ralink based WiFi is going to work fine. Googling I found out about Ralink RT2501 PCI and Ralink RT2501U USB that are said to be linux supported. Are there any recommendations with what to go: USB or PCI ? Since I am going to use it only on this new computer, I think I should settle for the PCI version.
Are these Ralink WiFi cards well supported under linux? Is the support built into the stock debian linux kernel, or I will have to compile a custom kernel to make the WiFi work ?
Are there any other WiFi cards I should consider that may work better under linux ?
So, what is the recommended way to go: ASUS P5B Deluxe/WiFi-AP or ASUS P5B Deluxe + WiFi card ?
One more question: I intend to use the new box with debian etch. Are these motherboards going to work with linux kernel 2.6.18 ?
Any suggestions would be very appreciated...
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