Re: FW: Wireless nic recommendation ?
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 lukek@meibin.net wrote:
> > Sorry, I'm a twit, that would be a PCMCIA wireless nic.
see the list of supported cards for each driver:
http://www.linux-wireless.org/Wireless/Drivers/
- better still, looka t your neighbor and see what they are running
== CAUTION ==
=============
- just because you get the same Model and Part# from the same
manufacturer does NOT guarantee you, that it'd work
- ALL manufacturers will use a different chipset in their
new batch of pci cards/pcmcia cards at any random time
- you will need to check the PCI database to see which
chipset (in detail) they are using
c ya
alvin
> Just been through this issue myself and your mileage will vary depending
> on your wlan setup? Will this be 11b or something else ? With 11b anything
> with the Prism chipset or orinoco seems to be well supported. With 11g or
> 11a look for devices with an Atheros chipset. A good place for information
> is the following page:
>
> http://customerproducts.atheros.com/customerproducts/
>
> HTH
>
> LukeK
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