I have a belkin F5D6020 pcmia and a belkin F5D6000 pci adapter in one of my desktops. works great with redhat and mandrake. I've been having problems getting it to work with windows. From what I can tell, the card and adapter have to be used together.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Manning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 10:59 PM Subject: [TriLUG] Re: PCI Wireless card > > [Roy Vestal] > > I am wanting to add a desktop to my network. I have wireless and I don't > > want to run a wire. Has anyone had experience with Wireless PCI cards > > under linux? Any recommendations? > > i used a pcmcia-pci bridge and an orinoco card a couple years back - > worked fine except pcmcia wasn't SMP-happy so I had to run my BP6 > dual celery with a UP kernel, but otherwise worked like a champ. > I've heard things are much better for SMP pcmcia these days, but I > haven't had a need to try it out lately. > > I like pcmcia wireless cards and bridges mainly because I can take the > card to a laptop if I choose to, whereas dedicated cards don't give > that flexibility. Not sure what the price comparisons are like these > days, though :) > -- > James Manning <http://www.sublogic.com/james/> > GPG Key fingerprint = B913 2FBD 14A9 CE18 B2B7 9C8E A0BF B026 EEBB F6E4 > _______________________________________________ > TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
