PCMCIA cards for Getoo?

mrm24_86 · n00b Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 1

This has probably been asked before but I'm installing Gentoo for the first time and wanted to hook up a PCMCIA wireless network card... what card works best... is there a particular brand that makes linux drivers or what??? Looking for any help I can get.

-Gentoo Noob

lcidw · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 77

My prehistoric laptop which allways ran Microsoft Windows, starting at Windows 95 afaik, was upgraded with a 100mbit PCMCIA card long time ago. The PCMCIA card isn't sold anymore, the company which makes those cards does not exist anymore.

So, i had no website, no drivers.. not even for Windows.

Even then it wasn't that hard to get it to work..

..So if i was you i would buy the PCMCIA card which you like the most, and use the Linux Kernel 2.6 PCMCIA. I don't think you'll run into unsolvable problems.

Zarhan · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1016

Pretty much everything except Cisco/Aironet works (Cisco works too, but the driver has no support for WPA). Altough there are many brands of cards, almost all of them are based on a few well-known chipsets. And these are well supported in Linux.