| Paul on Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:30:20 -0400 |
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Bought. Tried. Am returning the Belkin card. Ordered and received an ORiNOCO Gold card for $60 as suggested by gr. The ORiNOCO has better sensitivity (although connectivity has not improved) and it has the "MC" external antenna connector. Most important; it's Linux compatible without a hassle! If you only run Windows, the Belkin is fine. If you prefer to run Linux, stay away from the Belkin for now. A driver for the Atmel chip does exist, but it doesn't sound like it's ready for prime time. More reading for those with time to kill: I decided to replace (only on the laptop) RedHat 7.3 with Mandrake 9.1. It works almost flawlessly. The ORiNOCO was detected and configured during install, as was the mini-PCI 100baseT NIC, but I had to manually straighten out the network settings after install. X and power management worked out of the box. (That may be due to the fact that I had an existing suspend partition. I don't know.) The mini-PCI WinModen just needs a driver. So the hardware seems to be much more happy under Mandrake 9.1 compared to RedHat 7.3. _________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug
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