Re: Good supported wireless desktop adapter

Justin Dugger wrote:

The ndiswrapper solution is interesting, but if you're curious at all, the madwifi drivers seem to work perfectly well, and support WPA, etc. I would imagine its possible that in the future they could support newer versions of the 802.11 spec, given that you dont need a change in the radio.

NdisWrapper was a giant step backwards if you're interested in 802.11 analysis or wardriving. NDIS (and NdisWrapper by extension) can't pass raw 802.11 frames up the stack. It converts them to a fake Ethernet frame instead, stripping off all of the 802.11-specific information. If you want to see beacon frames, management frames, or 802.11 frame control information you have to use native Linux (or BSD) drivers.