Recommend wireless card

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Sun Dec 5 04:46:55 UTC 2004


On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Jamie Bohr wrote:
>
>> Thank you I found the Proxim Gold for < $30 online.  Now all I need is
>> a PCI card.
>>
>> Please note I am looking for cards that are supported natively in the
>> kernel, I don't want to have to worry about compling drivers every
>> time I update the kernel.  Compiling is not my thing.

<SNIP>

> I have an Avaya PCI card which works "out of the box".
> This is actually a PCI-to-PCMCIA adaptor
> with an Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card in it.

The other approach I've had good success with is the the ethernet client 
adapters (for non-mobile applications)... Thatt of course requires no 
drivers at all on the connected machine (you do need ethernet). because of 
the prevalence of tivo's and game consoles these things have been getting 
more common and cheaper.

>

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