Re: Wireless Network Cards
On 03/05/2005 06:30:26 PM, Jay Moore wrote:
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:01, Gary P Carr wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a PCMCIA wireless network card (802.11b)
>
Yes... Orinoco Gold by Agere Systems. It "just works" in FC (and most
other OS's.
The AT&T Plugandshare is a good one for 802.11g (don't know if the
Orinoco does 802.11g - most cards that "just work" seem to be 802.11b)
It does require the installation of kernel tainting madwifi driver (it
uses Atheros chipset) but it works extremely well.
I got the PCI version for $13.00 and the PCMCIA (I think its actually
cardbus) version for $9.00 - at CompUSA (don't know if sale is still
going on or not)
Don't get the models that use two channels, well - they might work in
standard mode, but apparently the driver doesn't handle two channels
yet. (get the 54mbps, not the 108mbps)
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Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/