What a good CHEAP card to get that works with Slackware 9.0? For a laptop.

http://www.linuxhardware.org/article...48&mode=thread
Here is a review of D-Link from linuxhardware.org[/url]

Major warning about the DWL-650 card from D-Link. They used to say it was Linux compatible on their website, but after I bought one, they changed it, and admitted that there are three entirely different cards out there with this model name, and only one works under Linux. See their site for more info.

Which is the best card of all???

I have the Dlink DWL-650+ and I cannot seem to get it to work at all

I got a linksys WPC11

The Linksys WPC11 does not have any problems????

I have a Dlink Access point, so will another manufacturers card work okay????

Dlink is annoying, but at least makes certain to change the model numbers, albeit slightly:

The DWL-650 is a prism2 card, supported
The DWL-650H is a symbol card, supported
The DWL-650A is an atheros card, supported
The DWL-650+ is a crappy TI card, who are refusing to release driver specs... evil, no worky, hall of shame!


The WPC11 is solid, as is the Netgear MA401, both of them will take getting the www.linux-wlan.net modules or alternatively, just using the onboard orinoco_cs modules which just means downloading the hermes.conf file and adding it to /etc/pcmcia/

Still, the best out of the box cards are the orinoco silver or gold and the Cisco 340 series.

Cheers,

Finegan