Or you could get a usb device also around $40 and more portable between machines. 



-------- Original message --------
From: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>
Date: 23/11/2013 10:17 (GMT+10:00)
To: luv-main@luv.asn.au,mlug-au@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: wifi card


Bianca Gibson <bianca.rachel.gibson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I need a wifi card for my desktop computer.
> I'm looking for either a free one or recommendations for one to buy. I'd
> like any recommendations to be cheap, money is tight at the moment.

If you have a PCI-Express slot available, you could buy a TP-LINK TL-WDN4800.

I have one of these in my desktop machine, which I'm using as an access point
with hostapd. $45 from msy.com.au as I recall.

lspci shows
80:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter
(rev 01)

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