[ale] WiFi PC Card Market

[Jeff Hubbs]

I was really hoping for something from the walk-in-and-buy-it world...


On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:37 -0400, Emil P. Man wrote:
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 
> >I'm needing to buy a PC Card Wifi adapter for my wife's laptop and I'm
> >not up on the Linux-supportedness of the makes and models one would find
> >in the typical Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc.  I have a prism54
> >card for my own laptop that works fairly well, but it's not my
> >understanding that I can get the FooBar 65X3342 card and assume it has
> >the same chipset as the FooBar 65X3342 card from two years ago.
> >
> >  
> >
> I would just get on ebay and buy an older one.. pretty much guranteed to 
> work. I have a netgear ma401 that is pretty well supported on linux. It 
> uses the orinoco chipset and those are well developed modules on linux.
> 
> >I also have that classic problem that you can't really tell from the
> >shrinkwrapped box just what chipset a Wifi card has, much less whether
> >or not it's Linux-usable.
> >
> >Jeff
> >
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