pcmcia wifi cards

dukeinlondon · 11-13-2003, 08:43 AM

I'd like to buy an old'ish laptop to use as an X terminal to my rather powerful desktop. For the networking, I'd like it to be wireless.

So if you've got a pcmcia wireless card that's worked for you without problems, let me know which one and with which distro.

Alternatively, create an entry in the hcl

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/

Thanks a lot.

BlackCell · 11-13-2003, 09:51 AM

... a D-Link DWL 650+ or any compatible TI ACX100 chipset.

The card can be made to work under Linux thanks to the fantastic efforts of the guys from http://acx100.sourceforge.net and from Thehousofcraig web sites and not because of the manufacturer. So just go for the normal Prism cards... :-) or at least also for a card that has proper support for linux if you still need to buy one.

Ginux · 11-13-2003, 10:40 AM

Netgear MA401, It's already posted on the hcl.

I was lucky when I bought it, at the time I just went to the store and picked up the first card I laid my hands on.

Ginux

tcaptain · 11-13-2003, 11:35 AM

Yeah...definitely the MA401....I'm totally linux-happy with it.

another2 · 11-13-2003, 10:28 PM

Orinoco card works great out of the box on debian

2Gnu · 11-13-2003, 10:35 PM

Cards used: ZyAIR B-100 and B-101, SMC 2532W-B, Proxim RangeLAN-DS, Linksys WPC-11 v1, ORiNOCO Silver.
Distros: Red Hat 7.3, 8.0, 9.0, Slackware 9.1