On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 15:25, Tom Buskey wrote: > > Fritz Gibbs said: > >Hello, > > > >I'm in the process of connecting my IBM ThinkPad 390X laptop running RH 7.2 to > > a Linksys wireless network. Is anyone aware of a brand of wireless PCMCIA tha > >t I can use and that is an "easy" install? > > I've run into problems using a linksys card with a linksys access > point. Other then that, just about any card should do. Most are prism/ > 2 based. Orinco are well supported. I use an Addtron (prism/2) card and it > works well. Just plug it in & Mandrake supports it. RH should too.
Ooh, you just hit a sore spot for me. I had the same problem with the WAPv2.2 and the WMP11. Turns out it is a problem *known to Linksys* since at least January, but there still wasn't any firmware update last I checked in the August/September time frame. To make matters worse, those two items are the ones most prominently displayed at CompUSA. When I returned them, I told them that they should be aware that they are selling two items that are supposed to work together that don't. >From the googling I did, it looks like it is *not* a Linux specific problem, either. Anyhow, for the OP: for plug-it-in-and-it-just-works, I found the Cisco 350 series (AIR-PCM352, specifically) worked great with Red Hat 7.3 and 8.0. Not sure about 7.2, though. It's definitely more expensive, but after doing battle with the wlan-ng drivers for the prism based cards, I had no problem paying the extra. (I did eventually get the wlan-ng stuff working, but was very unhappy with the way it was packaged and the work that would have been required to clean it up. If your inclined to give it a shot, or put up with the messiness of it all, then have at it...the prism cards are generally cheaper, so if that's a bigger concern, then it might just be a little more work.) -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
