Re: Easy Debian Wireless 101
Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ok, in the near future chances are I am going to dive into the
> wacky world of wireless. Thing is my first poke at it was less than
> successful. I bought a wireless PCMCIA card for my laptop and was
> unable to get the card to run with Debian. Chances are I just bought
> a difficult card to try to work with Linux; something about loading
> the BIOS onto the card every time the card is inserted. o.O
>
> Be that as it may I want to throw a wireless card into my
> router/server box. Does anyone have any recommendations for the
> simplest card to get working with Debian? I mean the ideal would be
> drop the card in, tell iprename(?) what the new card should be,
> install a package or two and away I go.
Hi Steve-
I think the easiest I have ever done is a orinoco pci adaptor with a
gold 11b card in it. I found these adaptors (still) on ebay awhile
back for pretty cheap and the classic gold cards can be found as well.
I also have used a linksys pci adaptor but I think it was either with
ndiswrapper or linuxant. Memory does not serve well on that particular
experiment.
If I wanted a drop-in type of thing, I would probably go with the
orinoco classic gold card and the pci adaptor.
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