On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:43 -0700, John Hampton wrote: > Tobias Rice wrote: > > Greetings, all. > > I need to buy a pcmcia wireless card that will be able to do wireless > > auditing under linux. I'm getting conflicting suggestions about which > > card to get. Prism I chipsets are open but very unstable. Some of the > > others work well but offer no support in linux. I've also heard that > > some of the manufactures changed chipsets w/o changing the model. Any > > suggestions on a make and model that will work? External antenna jacks a > > plus. > > Look for Prism 2 and above chipsets. I have a couple Linksys WPC11 v3 > cards that work great. No external antenna jack though.
Second that choice. That card is basically plug and play. Just watch out for the v4 card which has a different chipset (I understand it can work with some proprietary drivers and a bit of hacking, but screw that). Incidentally, Robby just bought a new wireless card that he got to work under Linux and might share his experience, if he's not too uppity. Regards, Cliff -- Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
