On Tue, 25 Mar 2003 02:39:57 -0800 Andre Eisenbach <andre@eisenbach.com> wrote: > Am Montag 24 März 2003 23:16 schrieb Jon: > > My question is, what is the best and easiest 802.11b PCMCIA card to > > buy for linux these days? Linksys? > > The Orinoco Wavelan cards are IMHO still the easiest to install and > best performers. > > I currently use a SMC wireless card though. And while it wasn't the > easiest to install, it is performing well and was dirt cheap ($39). I use prism II based cards with the orinoco drivers. That way it's cheap and easy to set up. I bought Proxim RangeLAN-DS cards from justdeals.com for about 40 bucks each, but I don't think they carry them anymore. Right now my cards of choice are 200 mW SENAO cards from abertek (http://aberinfo.goos.com/index.shtml). There is a model with two external antenna connectors, but if you don't have an external antenna, it doesn't work as well. The other model has a larger built-in antenna. Also, these cards appear to be rebadges, but I don't know who the original manufacturer was. dump_cis gives me "INTERSIL" "HFA384x/IEEE" "Version 01.02" "". No mention of any manufacturer other than Intersil. I'm guessing that these are basically the same as Intersil's referrence design. They are 200 mW cards though. -- Chas Becht mailto:chasbecht@hotpop.com (Public Key available on request) www.unf.edu/~becc0003/ (or coenurus.org if my ISP is up) "I'll need time. And squid." - Michael Yatskar
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