[ale] Linux for "normal" people?

[O. Nunez de Villavicencio]

Got it... prism54 chipset. Thanks Geoffrey,
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Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:

>Holmquist, Thomas W. wrote:
>> Actually, it doesn't matter... Netgear, Linksys, D-Link, etc. What
>> you have to look for is if the card is based on a Prism chipset. 
>> Prism chipsets and a handful of ?a few other chipsets are all that
>> Linux currently supports. Although I haven't been keeping up with
>> wireless support on Linux, I think pretty much any card will work now
>> (some require drivers that cost $$$ though)
>
>You have to be very careful when purchasing a card based on the prism54 
>chipset. ?Many vendors have changed the internals of their cards, yet 
>continue to call them the same thing. ?For example, I have a 3com 
>OfficeConnect ver. 1 that works like a champ. ?3com apparently is 
>producing a version 2 that does not work with the prism54 driver, yet 
>the packaging is the same. ?The same has happened to the smc 2802, which 
>is a pci card. ?I've got two of these and they work great. ?They've 
>changed the internals on this card in later versions as well.
>
>-- 
>Until later, Geoffrey
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