List of laptop (pcmcia) wirelss network cards

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 14:15, TroyGeek wrote:
> There's always a debate as to whether to buy or build (get it working on 
> your own) when it comes to software. As i've already spent over 10 hours 
> just trying to get a wireless card to work with no avail, there comes a 
> time when you have to decide whether you want to spend many more hours 
> trying to get this to work or to buy. Not everyone has ample time to sit 
> and try to get device drivers working, but yes I always try to search 
> the web and mailing lists when I have trouble. However, when all the 
> options found on the Internet for getting this to work are exhaughted, 
> paying a little money to fix the problem and saving potentially hours of 
> more work which I don't have seems like a viable option. Giving up on 
> using Linux because I haven't been able to get a wireless card working 
> yet wasn't the route I wanted to go in.
> 

If your laptop has one of the wireless adapters that has no linux
drivers you AFAIK have 2 options to get it working.

driverloader at Linuxant.com (about $20)

or ndiswrapper from ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (free)

HTH
Jeff