>Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 15:46:35 -0400 (EDT) >From: Alex Hewitt USG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >I would suggest you look carefully at whichever wireless card you might >consider. I have the LinkSys WPC-11 PCMCIA card in my laptop. I bought this card >when it first came on the market. It has relatively poor range. There are newer >versions of this same card. I've seen them with stickers that say "v2.5" or >"v3.0". I've read that these newer versions have improved electronics and >antenna circuitry. One card that gets excellent reviews (and has the nice >attribute of being a bit less expensive) is the NetGear MA401 card. By all >accounts the Orinco cards are supposed to deliver the best range. Note that >there are two models - a silver model that supports WEP 64 bit encryption and a >Gold model that supports 128 bit encruption.
I WOULD have suggested these cards too. As we have them working under Linux here. The latest batch, with "ver 3" on the card didn't seem to work under linux with any of the latest batch of drivers. The old cards (version 2.5 but not marked on the card itself) continue to work great. If you want it to work with Linux make sure you can bring it back if you get one that doens't work. Or hope the drivers catch up soon. The latest Wireless support is in a state of flux under linux at this time. I'm sure the cards will be support in a few more months, but as of a couple weeks ago we couldn't get the version 3 cards working. -------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Anderson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Programmer phone: (603) 862-3489 UNH Research Computing Center fax: (603) 862-1761 -------------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
