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Re: 802.11b cards



On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +1200, criggie wrote:
> > I'm considering getting a wireless card for my laptop (Dell Inspiron
> > 8200) running Debian unstable.  Cardbus/pcmcia would be best, but it
> > also has usb, firewire, and an availabe mini-pci slot.  What currently
> > available reasonably priced cards work with linux?

Got two Netgear MA401 (PCMCIA), which costed about £20 each
IIRC. Worked fine, Debian's kernel supports it out of the
box (with 2.4.20, I think 2.4.18 doesn't have the Prism
driver).
 
> SSH isn't really an option cos the hardware on each end
> lacks CPU power (one laptop is a a P166, the other a 486)

You should try it; I use SSH routinely on a P100, I used to
use it with compression and the connection just takes a
little time to establish, then it's as fast as telnet.

/Y

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