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clockwise
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 10:53 am    Post subject: suggest a pcmcia wireless card Reply with quote

hi all,

i've just purchased a laptop, so a nice addition would be a pcmcia wireless card. i've got an 802.11b/g network available, so a 54mbs card would be nice (but only if it's cheap! ;-) ).

my current laptop is using some kind of hideous, internal usb card - but it works beautifully with linux-wlan-ng and the prism drivers.

what i'd like is for some other gentoo users to give me their opinion on the best purchase out there. pitfalls to be avoided would good too. for example, i was looking at this: http://www.linksys.com/Products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=36&prid=427 until i found out that the chipset changed in version 4 and is no longer supported.

so, tell me how to spend my employer's money!
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ep98
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Try with Orinoco, I have one installed with California dish at home, and it works fine, without any problems
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 10, 2004 6:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use an Intel 2200BG with ndiswrapper and it works fine. It's a mini-PCI and I got it for about $45 from Newegg. I don't use my card for "monitoring" or "mobile security audits" or anything that requires a real linux driver, so wrappers have always worked fine.
-Kris
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