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On Tuesday 16 July 2002 21H:41, Walt Mankowski wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 09:28:34PM -0400, christophe barbé wrote:
> > I need to buy a 802.11 laptop card tomorrow morning. I don't have much
> > time to find the best card and the best price so I would really
> > appreciate all your experiences. I need a card working with a 2.4.18
> > kernel, ideally a cardbus (ie. a 32 bits card supported by the hotplug
> > code). I will certainly buy it at BestBuy or CircuitCity.
>
> I'm quite happy with my Orinoco Silver card. Been around forever, and
> it's the card all the other cards claim to emulate. Works great in
> 2.4.18. Unfortunately I've never seen it in any computer stores. I
> had to mail order it.
>
> Walt
I've had decent luck with Linksys WPC11 cards. They're pretty cheap and widely
available. However, pretty much any Prism 2.x/3 card should be mostly
comparable. The greatest difference is likely to be power/signal strength
considerations...
Don't know if any of the cards out there are actually true cardbus cards. Most
of the wireless network cards still don't support much past 11Mbps. Perhaps
the next generation will see more cardbus need and support.
I've never tried to build support into the kernel. From what problems others
have described, this is still not recommended. AFAIK, definitely better
support to compile wireless networking drivers as a module.
I'm using SuSE 8.0 w/ the stock 2.4.18 kernel. I did have to grab the latest
drivers from the wlan-ng project, http://www.linux-wlan.org/index.html , to
get the WPC11 ver.3 card working. Also, I haven't had great luck with any
distro's control-panel / GUI config utilities. Usually have to manually edit
the config files to get things working.
Cheers,
Jason Nocks
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