[TriLUG] Wireless card recommendations?

[Mike Johnson]

Ken Mink [kmtrilug at nc.rr.com] wrote:

> I dugout an old wired card and am living tethered while I do some
> research. It seems a lot of the card vendors have been switching
> chipsets. My old card was a Cisco Aironet 340. Good card. It was a
> parting gift from my last dot bomb.

If you're going to take the time and order a new card, try this one:
http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?action=products_show_description&productCode=SMC2532W-B

I've been very happy with it.  It's a Prism card, but I had to use the
wlan-ng drivers.  Worked like a charm.  It's a 200Mw card with external 
antenna ports (2) and comes with an antenna to plug into it.  It has
much better reception than an Orinoco clone I tried.  Oh, and Amazon has
it pretty cheap.

You can see my iwconfig numbers at:
http://mike.random.info/2003/12/14/
 
> A piece of advise. Don't leave a wireless card poking out the side of
> your laptop when you put the laptop into your bag. Sometimes the bag
> gets hit and the card gets broke. Just an FYI from the voice of
> experience.

Note the SMC card has a detachable antenna. :)

Mike
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