[ale] dongle feedback

[Jim Popovitch]

I use one of the Xircom 56K and 10/100 ethernet cards in my IBM laptop
without any problem.  However, you will need to have the latest kernel
pcmcia drivers/tools installed.

-Jim P.

--- Robert Butera <rbutera at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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