[TriLUG] Re: PCI Wireless card

Jason Tower jason at cerient.net
Fri Jun 27 08:53:00 EDT 2003


i have a netgear USB wireless thingy (MA101) that i got partially working, if 
you want to take a stab at it you're welcome to borrow it.

jason

On Friday 27 June 2003 08:32, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I thought about this, since I have 2 laptops. However, I'd prefer to be
> able to have both laptops AND this desktop on at the same time, since
> I'm going to backup the laptops to the machine.
>
> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 22:59, James Manning wrote:
> > i used a pcmcia-pci bridge and an orinoco card a couple years back -
> > worked fine except pcmcia wasn't SMP-happy so I had to run my BP6
> > dual celery with a UP kernel, but otherwise worked like a champ.
> > I've heard things are much better for SMP pcmcia these days, but I
> > haven't had a need to try it out lately.
> >
> > I like pcmcia wireless cards and bridges mainly because I can take the
> > card to a laptop if I choose to, whereas dedicated cards don't give
> > that flexibility.  Not sure what the price comparisons are like these
> > days, though :)
>
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