[TriLUG] Cheap supported Wireless PCMCIA card

[Jeremy Clark]

Did a Freaking Search ... which almost had a winner

My problem was I went out and bought one w/out planning.
So I have this netgear card now that
doesn't have a driver for linux.

Thanks for the linux card link that will be helpfull.


Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 14:57, Jeremy Clark wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone have a suggestion for a wireless pcmcia interface that isn't 
>>expensive? This is just for personal use. I DAFS but wanted a second 
>>opinion.
> 
> 
> There has been much speculation in the IRC channel over the meaning of
> "DAFS" -- "Direct Access File System" didn't seem to make sense.  Can
> you explain?
> 
> What kind of interface are you looking for?  802.11b or g, or something
> else like Bluetooth?  For 802.11b, anything based on the PrismII chipset
> will work nicely in Linux, but I don't know how hard they are to find
> now.  (Many of the cards that formerly used PrismII now use a Broadcom
> shipset that isn't supported as well.)
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
>