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Old 03-06-2003, 09:46 PM   #1
salmo
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Question 802.11b recommendations


Ok, for Christmas my parents thought they'd be nice and get me a wireless router and a PCI card so I could stick a computer in the bedroom of my apartment. Wonderful, except the card they bought me was a Linksys WMP11 v2.7, so I ran into the whole Broadcom problem (if there are any developments on that front let me know!).

Anyway, I'm finally setting this deal up since I've had a bit of free time (and due to the previous lack of free time a little extra cash). I'm looking to go ahead and buy a new 802.11b PCI card, but I don't want to run into the same situation I did before. I'd like to get a Prism based card that doesn't have a variant based on a Broadcom or some other unsupported chipset. I'd rather not take it home and find out I can't use it. Also if you have had good/bad/other experiences with it, feel free to elaborate. I'm willing to go USB, I guess, but a while back I had read some bad things about USB 802.11b equipment and Linux. Maybe thats old news.

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Old 03-06-2003, 11:29 PM   #2
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Cards with the lucent chipset tend to be better than the prism2 cards, plus they have a port for and external antenna. I have a Dell TrueMobile 1150. It is the exact same card as the Orinoco Gold card, just relabled. You shouldn't have anyproblem setting up any of the lucent cards in linux.

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Old 03-08-2003, 06:40 PM   #3
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An older Linksys WMP11, the D-Link-520 (not the 520+), a Netgear MA311 I think its called... they haven't switched off of prism2 yet thankfully... that's the biggies. USB prism devices are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, plus you run into the same version number bait and switch that Linksys used. All of them work brilliantly under orinoco_pci v.13 or so, and work serviceably with versions back to v11b

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