[TriLUG] PCI Wireless card

[Roy Vestal]

I was thinking of the Linksys, since it "theoretically" uses the same
chipset as my PCMCIA card. So I'm thinking it would be supported.

Thoughts?

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 09:18, Lee wrote:
> Roy Vestal wrote:
> > I am wanting to add a desktop to my network. I have wireless and I don't
> > want to run a wire. Has anyone had experience with Wireless PCI cards
> > under linux? Any recommendations?
> > 
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> Roy,
> Some recommed a pci-pcmcia bridge so that you can use the card 
> elsewhere, but I recommend against a pci-pcmcia bridge just because I 
> find pcmcia to be a serious pain in the toosh (though that may be due to 
> my choice of distro :-)
> 
> I can tell you what to watch out for... Stay away from D-Link (unless 
> you can find a really old version) and anything that claims 22mbs, as 
> these use the unsupported TI chipsets. Also stay away from netgear 
> (again, unless you can find an old one) as these use the unsupported 
> broadcom chips.
> 
> The only one that I can recommend with a fair amount of certainty is 
> belkin, not because they have a better product, but because they are 
> still using supported (older) chipsets.
> 
> I've recently heard some rumors that there may soon be 802.11g support 
> (in fact I think I heard it in #trilug yesterday) so you may want to 
> wait for that if possible.
> 
> Another nice thing about true pci wireless (rather than a bridge) is 
> that in many cases the antenna can be replaced, which is a nice bonus if 
> you have your desktop under a metal desk.
> 
> Good luck :-)
> 
> -Lee
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