Ben Barrett wrote: > Just saw a great special on dealnews... > http://dealnews.com/articles/32174.html > says $45 for orinoco silver card, but the direct link: > >http://www.package2you.com/cgi-bin/miva.cgi?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PLST&Store_Code=P > has it listed for $52, or $49.95 at 4+, still a deal.
www.justdeals.com has Proxim Rangelan/DS cards for $37.50 + shipping. Here's what an engineer I know wrote about it. > Wireless - Proxim Rangelan/DS 802.11b PCMCIA cards, for $37.50. > These are based on the same Intersil Prism chipset as the > Netgear, Linksys, and D-Link cards. They seem to have a better > antenna (and thus better range) than the D-Link cards. > > The bad news is that these cards, as shipped, have old firmware > and drivers which supports only 40-bit WEP encryption, and Proxim > has never released a firmware upgrade. The good news is that > these are actually re-badged cards, made by an OEM named Zcomax. > The Zcomax drivers can be made to work with these cards (on > WIN9x at least, and it looks as if a similar method can be made > to work on NT and Win2K also), and the cards can be flashed with > up-to-date 128-bit-compatible Intersil firmware. With the up-to-date > firmware in the cards, they work nicely with the Linux WLAN-NG > drivers, and they negotiate 128-bit encryption [...] The PRISM chip is the only chip that AirSnort supports, BTW. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
