Any suggestion of buy a wireless pci card?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Feb 5 10:52:55 UTC 2004


On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Jason Dixon wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 02:46, Richy wrote:
> > I plan to use wireless network with my Fedora Core 1 at home. I got two 
> > PC in my home, one used by my wife is a laptop with winxp, the other 
> > desktop with fedora used by myself. I want to install a wireless LAN in 
> > my home and connect to internet by ADSL.
> > 
> > So, it seems that I need a wireless access point with ADSL and a 
> > wireless pci card. Is there any suggestion about purchase a wireless pci 
> > card for my fedora? I usually find buy a hardware for linux need more 
> > attention.
> 
> Search the archives, search google.  Use what others have used.  Orinoco
> cards are very popular, I like the old prism2 cards and their HostAP
> features.  Find a chipset that's well supported, then with the range
> you'll need.

i've twice set up a home wireless network using a linksys WAP router with 
4-port switch, and a linksys wireless pcmcia card for my laptop.  no
problems either time.

rday





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