Does anyone know of a site or similar resource that compares and contrasts wireless hardware?
More specifically, I am running NetBSD on a handheld, which only supports a handful (excuse pun ;-) of wireless NIC cards. I am looking for a wireless card that has excellent range but low power enough so it doesn't eat my batteries for breakfast ;-) Here's the PCMCIA network hardware supported by NetBSD: Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series wireless network (an) BayStack 650 IEEE 802.11FH wireless network card (awi) Netwave AirSurfer wireless network card (cnw) 3Com 3c562, 3c574 and 3c589 family (ep) Fujitsu MB86960-based cards, including the TDK CD021BX (mbe) NE2000 compatibles (ne) Raytheon Raylink / WebGear Aviator IEEE 802.11 2Mbps Wireless (ray) SMC91c9x-based cards, including Megahertz X-Jack (sm) AT&T/Lucent WaveLan wireless PCMCIA card (wi) Intersil PRISM WaveLan wireless PCMCIA card (wi) Xircom CreditCard PCMCIA Ethernet (xi) IBM and 3Com Tropic-based Token Ring cards (tr) (This list is at http://www.netbsd.org/Hardware/pcmcia.html) -- .jA repoleveD \ .nimdA smetsyS -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
