As far as I have used all the 802.11b PCMCIA Card, all the card service driver work well ( some are better :) ) and most of the 802.11b card work in Linux, ( so as Dell's , only two major chipset in market ) TrueMobile1100 is using Prism driver, 1150 and 1150 mini are Hermes 1150 will be the only one allow antenna, but I don't see Dell sell them anymore only 1150 mini. Card service work well under 2.4 I havn't been using 2.2 for a while... don't know :o And the Question will be why buying a Dell card if you can get 3 Lucent Silver with the same price ( they have very well preformance unless you need 128WEP, you will need the Gold Card, and they are the same chipset Hermes , with ext antenna ready ) http://eshop.macsales.com/Item_Specials.cfm?ID=4112&Item=LUC012372A The build in mini pci 1150 work also ( unless you really need an extra pcmcia slot, I don't suggest it ) the mini use case to act as antenna also, which make your laptop position and direction affect connectivity also. Good luck Alex
Karsten Rothemund wrote: >Hello List, > >my Dell Inspiron is running better and better under Linux (Debian)[1]. >Now I beginn to think about a WLAN-card, because the University of >Rostock has installed a WLAN-network in most of its buildings. The >problem is, I don't know, if the WLAN-card Dell offers is running with >Linux. > >In fact they offer(ed) two variants: > >1. a usual PCMCIA-card. This will work - I think - as good as every >other card (and therefor I can take any other of these cards) > >2. The Laptop has a builtin antenna for WLAN (this makes this solution >look so sexy) which will work with a special DELL-WLAN-card (not so >sexy). As far as I know, this card has to be installed into the laptop >(so, maybe it is too late anyway). But I don't know anything about >this card. Anyone with more information here? > >Thanx for any help, > > > >[1] a report on my journey through Linux-Djungle can soon be found under >http://www-ae.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/home/karo/I8100-Installation.de.html >(unfortunately only in german language up to now) >
