Test out any card you buy. Haul your laptop into the store and see if your OS detects it. Good local stores like Computer Exchange have open wifi, so you will know right away. Model numbers are not a sure guide because chipsets can be changed.
That said, I've had luck with a Belkin B card, an Ambicom CF card in a CF adaptor and the Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) card that's in the LSU laptop. All of these cards work natively under 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. 802.11B has been more than adequate for me. 11mbps rivals and mostly exceeds bandwith you will see from DSL and even Cable modems on most days. I'm writing this over wifi through an X forwarded Kontact and there's not much difference between it and ethernet. It's good enough for apt-get upgrades up to 500MB. Gigabytes of file transfer can be slow, but a native driver will have the stability to run all night without a problem. I've never tried it, but dowloads though Konqueror, Mozilla and wget are supposed to be robust enough to overcome disconnects. On Thursday 27 October 2005 03:42 pm, Chopin Cusachs wrote: > So the question arises whether I would be better off > buying a WPC11 card or spending just a little more > and getting something like the WPC54G card, also > from Linksys. ?
