[ale] wireless card for laptop

[Dow Hurst]

Linux Format from the UK is starting a hardware column.  They had 
keyboard mouse combos in the first article.  They will take suggestions 
from readers at their site.  I plan to suggest Bluetooth and Wireless 
hardware.
Dow


David S. Jackson wrote:

>On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 12:15:26PM -0400 Matthew Magee <mnmagee at earthlink.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>I wanted to get some recomendations from the list before I buy a wireless 
>>PCMCIA card.
>>
>>I need:
>>
>>16 bit card (no Cardbus)
>>Works with Slackware 9.1
>>Needs to be economical (I'm poor)
>>
>> So far I have come up with a netgear MA 401. Any other ideas?
>>    
>>
>
>You have to watch out for some of the popular cards, like the Netgear
>ma401 and the linksys wpc11(?):  I think the netgear went to a
>broadcom chipset (correct me if I'm confused) and the linksys went to
>a realtek chipset.  So it's critical that you ensure that you have
>the *older* prism2 chipset if you choose these cards.  The older,
>well-supported prism2 chipset might be harder to find on these
>popular cards.  (No difference between this radical chipset change is
>noted anywhere on the box, except in a slight difference between the
>version levels of the card.)
>
>I believe the Orinoco is still a prism2.  There's a compatibility
>list at: http://www.tuxmobile.com/pcmcia_linux.html.  The Linux-wlan
>project contains a couple of compatibility lists too:
>
>http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Wireless.html
>and
>http://www.wireless.org.au/~jhecker/atmeldrv/usbtable.html
>
>Also, emperorlinux (emperor-linux.com) here locally specializes in
>linux laptops.  They can tell you exactly what works and what doesn't
>on many popular laptop brands.  They sell PCMCIA wireless stuff.
>
>  
>

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