Le 12533ième jour après Epoch, Martin List-Petersen écrivait: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 17:32, François TOURDE wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm planning to buy a Wireless MiniPCI card for my Laptop (Dell >> Latitude C840), working under Debian Sarge (hum... with some Sid too). >> >> Looking at the web, I've found cheaper and faster cards than the Dell >> one. My question is: Can I use any MiniPCI card on my Dell, or no. >> >> Any experience, advice, link, etc. is welcome. >> >> Thanks in advance, and sorry for my poor English. > > The C840 should have a MiniPCI slot (look at it's bottom, there is > one hatch for memory and one for MiniPCI). > > If you choose a Dell TrueMobile card, i would advise you not to buy > a TM1180, 1300 or 1400. These are not natively supported by Linux, > because they are Broadcom based. Should you get one of these, you > would need the NDISWrapper or Linuxant's DriverLoader to load the > Windows drivers. > > The Dell TrueMobile 1150 is Orinoco/Agere based and perfectly > supported, but only 802.11b (11 MBit/s). > > If you want 802.11g or 802.11a you should go for a Atheros based > MiniPCI card (available at > http://www.wisp-router.com/index.php?cPath=35_51), > which is supported using the MadWifi driver > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi) > > More usefull links on my Dell Latitude D600 Howto > (http://www.marlow.dk/dell_d600)
Many thanks for your reply. I'll try to find the most powerfull and the cheapest card :) Waiting for Santa Claus ...
