On Saturday 17 January 2004 04:50, Joe wrote: > I am giving up on getting my friends integrated intel NIC working on his > VAIO under mandrake. He is willing to shell out cash for a network card > that works well with 9.2. A local mom and pop shop here in Edmonton > sells an Asus wl-100 pcmcia nic for $40 canadian. It sounds like a > reasonable deal but, anyone know if it's supported? Anyone want to > suggest other well supported cards (non-wireless only please). TIA.
I've never had one of those so I wouldn't be sure about the Asus but if you want to be sure: As a rule try to avoid cardbus cards, a lot of them work but quiet a few don't or demand some defty fiddling with IRQ settings. If your friend ever wants to reuse the card on an older machine you need a card that's made for slot 1, on the plus: practically all of those work straight-out on all distribs be they however small. Nice again with older hardware: say turning an old P133 laptop into a firewall/router or server or as thin client like machine. Slot 1 devices have slightly different notches on the insert side of the card so one usually can't insert slot 1's into slot 2's but vice versa is no problem. If you can find one on the cheap, buy it...they're getting rare. The same goes for wireless cards BTW, the ones wich aren't cardbus and carry prism2 chips are getting rare too, and those are the nice ones for setting up your own access point or just monitoring the vicinity. Old cheapo hardware is very good for that sort of stuff:) Good luck, HarM Who just bought a "Logitech Quickcam for notebooks" to find out that only the "pro" version works....Dang, fell for it again:( -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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