Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?
Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house
and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear
WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The
antenna fit the old MA311 card so I am out $50 but back on line. (I had
expected the new card to work and that I would be able to order a new
antenna from Netgear and use the old card in a second computer.)
I did a Google search and found forlorn messages from someone trying to
get a Linksys PCI card to work. I have one of those too and wasted over
a month two years ago trying to get it to work. Finally gave up and
bought the Netgear card which, with a little start up script, worked
like a charm.
The point of this message? Two years have gone by since my struggles
with the Linklsys card and we have progressed from Woody to Sarge and
from 2.4 to 2.6 kernels. I thought the problems would all be history
but the Google search indicates this is not the case.
Is there somewhere a clear summary of what works and how?
If I have missed the obvious I apologize but it took hours to clear the
3,000+ messages that accumulated during the move and there is still a
hell of a lot of unpacking to do. I thought I'd quickly post this
message and go back to work.
Tom George
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