[TriLUG] [OT] Inexpensive Wi-Fi Card Locally?

[Lee Fickenscher]

Jeremy,
I've had good luck with D-Link's usb hub/ethernet...
http://www.dlink.com/products/usb/dsbh3etx/
it uses the pegasus/pegasusII drivers under USB->Networking
But from what I've heard its pretty hit-or-miss for usb ethernet.

Lee

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:28:48PM -0500, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 12:21, bp wrote:
> > I realize this may be somewhat off-topic and for that I apologize in 
> > advance. 
> > 
> > Now that I've procrastinated a sufficent amount of time, I'm looking to 
> > buy a 802.11b PCMCIA card and would like to spend as little as possible 
> > on one.  It needs to work on my dual boot Red Hat 8 & Win2k system.   
> > Anyone have a place & card to recommend? BB, CC, Stay Online?  I need to 
> > purchase this before I leave on a business trip later this week.
> > 
> 
> I've had success with the Linksys WPC11.  It's inexpensive (mine was $40
> with rebate at CompUSA) and should work just fine in both OS's.  I did
> have to add the manufacturer ID to a config file for it to be recognized
> in RHL 8, but that was minor.  For better performance you can switch to
> the wlan-ng drivers but the orinoco_cs driver works fine for me.
> 
> (Let me know if you need the exact information on getting this working
> in RHL 8; it's pretty easy.)
> 
> On a related note, anyone know if the "SMC 2662W Wireless 802.11b USB
> Network Card" available from Intrex works in Linux?  These USB cards are
> cheaper than the PCMCIA cards and handy because they can be used on
> desktops too, but what's the Linux support for USB network stuff like?
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
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