Just a general and quick question...

I am about to purchase these 2 items for my home network, just wondering if anyone has had any problems with these two products at all?

In regards with the NIC, even though that it will mainly be used in an Windows XP environment, the slight chance that my sister would want to learn linux, are there drivers out there and how easy are they to implement?

Regards
Kristijan

Whew, two days... hopefully you haven't bought the gear yet.

The DWL-520+ and the DWL-900AP+ are Texas Instruments based kit, they can do 22Mbs due to some monkeying TI did with the 802.11b spec, but they're kinda an evolutionary cul-de-sac.

Also, TI refuses to support them under Linux, so even though there is a driver for the DWL-520+

acx100.sourceforge.net

It sucks, since it was engineered with no information about the card.

There's better 802.11g kit out there that'll get better speeds, range, and is around the same price and has "relatively" simple linux support to get running. Atheros and GTPrism or Prism Duet gear listed on this site:

http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks finegan, I will take that into consideration