At my work, we use the Xircom 56K plus 10/100 ethernet and have never had a problem. We have been phasing out the older dongle dell laptops by adding xircom nics. However, this is not a linux shop (we only have a few test machines that are linux) and I can not offer an opinion using linux.
>From: Robert Butera
>Reply-To: Robert Butera
>To: ale@ale.org
>Subject: [ale] dongle feedback
>Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:24:11 -0500 (EST)
>
>
>We've got 2 notebook computers in the family, and we seem to have a
>"dongle-crisis" every other month. It's just a lousy interconnect
>technology -- one wrong step or the curiosity of a 2-year-old makes me a
>frequent shopper for used PCMCIA NICs on eBay.
>
>Does anyone have any user opinions on NICs that are dongle-free (like the
>Xircom) and supported by the pcmcia package?
>
>We're also considering wireless, but that's another can of worms
>for a later post.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Robert Butera, Assistant Professor
>School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
>Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences
>Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363 USA
>--> http://www.ece.gatech.edu/users/rbutera/
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