On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Ajai Khattri wrote: > > Does anyone know of a site or similar resource that compares and contrasts > wireless hardware?
No, but Dragorn of Kismet fame wrote an excellent article covering WiFi card selection on the last 2600:Hacker Quarterly magazine. > > 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 ;-) > > Aironet 4500/4800 and Cisco 340 series wireless network (an) No. Battery Hog, and not exactly strong, either. > BayStack 650 IEEE 802.11FH wireless network card (awi) No. Not really standards compliant. > 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) No. Not Wireless NICs. Normal Ethernet based NICs. > Raytheon Raylink / WebGear Aviator IEEE 802.11 2Mbps Wireless (ray) Not exactly great but passable > SMC91c9x-based cards, including Megahertz X-Jack (sm) Not Wireless either. > AT&T/Lucent WaveLan wireless PCMCIA card (wi) Possibly your best bet for now. > Intersil PRISM WaveLan wireless PCMCIA card (wi) Don't know if it covers Prism2 or not...But okay as well. > Xircom CreditCard PCMCIA Ethernet (xi) > IBM and 3Com Tropic-based Token Ring cards (tr) Not Wireless NICs either. -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
