[TriLUG] New PCMCIA NIC (Netgear info)

[Justin Johnson]

>
> With the Netgear WLAN cards I had to download these drivers:
>
> http://www.linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/
>
> ftp://ftp.linux-wlan.org/pub/linux-wlan-ng/
>
> And they were a pain to get installed, had to download the
> pcmcia source to
> compile them:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmcia-cs/
>
> Once I got it up and running it's been nice and stable, and
> I'm very happy
> with it.
>
> On a side note the Netgear 802.11b cards are PCMCIA 16bit
> cards.  Why run
> 32 bit when you only need bandwidth for 11Mbs simplex?

I guess I wasn't clear. The NetGear and 3Com cards are not 802.11b, rather
they are 802.3.
Wireless is simply to slow for the situation for which I was origionally
using this laptop. :-(

Thanks,
Justin