On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:30:49AM +1200, criggie wrote: > > I'm considering getting a wireless card for my laptop (Dell Inspiron > > 8200) running Debian unstable. Cardbus/pcmcia would be best, but it > > also has usb, firewire, and an availabe mini-pci slot. What currently > > available reasonably priced cards work with linux?
Got two Netgear MA401 (PCMCIA), which costed about £20 each IIRC. Worked fine, Debian's kernel supports it out of the box (with 2.4.20, I think 2.4.18 doesn't have the Prism driver). > SSH isn't really an option cos the hardware on each end > lacks CPU power (one laptop is a a P166, the other a 486) You should try it; I use SSH routinely on a P100, I used to use it with compression and the connection just takes a little time to establish, then it's as fast as telnet. /Y -- This signature left empty.
