[ale] wireless PCMCIA

[Hogg, Russell E]

In my somewhat educated opinion on wireless PCMCIA cards.  
I'd say there were really 3 choices


1. ORINOCCO GOLD
2. that cool 3COM with the XJACK antenna.  My daily driver, well former daily driver.
        (I've seen to many cards with the antenna broken off)
3. The cheapest piece of crap you can find because: Hey maybe the standards will change anyway.  


I can't remember now whether the 3com functions well in Linux, I no longer have high speed access so the wireless network is temporarily on ice.  You've already documented the risks as far as other cards.

My ORINOCCOs rock in RH8 though..



 
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com] 
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:58 PM
To: Atlanta Linux "User Group (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [ale] wireless PCMCIA


That is in the price range I'm looking for. I can't find a local source,
though. Loads of d-link, linksys, _SPIT_ Microsoft _SPIT_ 


On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 16:45, Hogg, Russell E wrote:
> 
> I haven't bought any new cards recently.
> 
> I find it hard to believe that Lucent would up and whack Linux
> functionality with the ORINOCCO GOLD though.  Those little babies are
> workhorses.
> 
> IF noone else responds with better.  Id go that direction and
> PRICEWATCH it.
> I bought a couple maybe 6 months ago for maybe 45 a piece.
> 
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> Russ
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> I'm looking for a WORKING wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop. I keep
> buying stuff that has all the right box text, but the &^%@#s changed
> the
> chip set to an unsupported version. Has anyone bought a wireless PC
> card
> in the last few months that is happy with it and willing to divulge
> name
> brand, model and price? 
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