[ale] Wirless NIC Advice

[Robert Coggins]

This is the one I got for $10 at microcenter in marietta.
Works well Microcrap WinXP too  In a Dell 366 latitude

Rob

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zyman, Andy" <zymana at hra.nyc.gov>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: [ale] Wirless NIC Advice


> "I'm a proud owner" of SMC2635W. Still could make it work under RH8. But:
> 1. I haven't really tried.
> 2. under win2000 laptop (compaq m700 ) it works vveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerry
> good - in terms of stability and range
> 3. i saw them for $26 on ......... forgot what site, but try to lookup on
> fatwallet.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johnny Preyer [mailto:JPreyer at sprich.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:22 PM
> > To: 'ale at ale.org'
> > Subject: RE: [ale] Wirless NIC Advice
> >
> >
> > The Lucent Orinoco Gold Classic cards work wonderfully with Linux.
> >
> > Stay away from 3-Com cards; they stink.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Kilroy, Chris [SMTP:Chris.Kilroy at turner.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:14 PM
> > > To: 'ale at ale.org'
> > > Subject: RE: [ale] Wirless NIC Advice
> > >
> > > I snagged a new Lucent Orinoco Gold card for $45 on ebay.
> > You can buy
> > > them for as cheap as $57 or so from a "real" online store.
> >  I have only
> > > used it with my wife's laptop (WinXP), so i cant comment on
> > how well it
> > > works under Linux, but speaking on the hardware front, it
> > is awesome.
> > >
> > > I've heard nothing but good things about it.  More detailed
> > infoz here:
> > > <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ->
> > > ->
> > > ->I'm building a laptap (old Dell Pentium III 500 MHz something
> > > ->or other) and purchasing a wireless NIC PC card for it.  I'll
> > > ->probably try to install SuSE Linux on it (because I've had
> > > ->good luck with SuSE installs in the past).  I'm looking at a
> > > ->Netgear (good luck with Netgear and Linsys equipment in the
> > > ->past and this is the cheapest) MA521 (802.11b) ($45) and was
> > > ->wondering if anyone knows:
> > > ->
> > > ->1) Will I have driver issues?
> > > ->2) Is there a better (cheaper/reliable) deal?
> > > ->
> > > ->Thanks,
> > > ->John Marasco
> > > ->
> > > ->
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