[ale] wireless PCMCIA

[James P. Kinney III]

Actually, I agree with both of these. I don't want to put any $$ in M$
pocket. At the same time, I have to be pragmatic about this.

So I went to E-bay and found several orinoco card (that take an optional
external antenna! Mmmm! Visions of 'cantennae'.) in the price range I'm
looking at.

And an offer to buy a working Linksys from an Ale'r (still considering
it).

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 20:03, Stuffed Crust wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 07:36:56PM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> > Do not under any circumstances put money in M$'s pocket, when there is a 
> > viable alternative.  Contact one of the Linux vendors and inquire as to 
> > what they use.
> 
> Hey, I'm being pragmatic and practical here.
> 
> Bottom line is that you just don't know what you're getting when you 
> walk into a store to buy something.  The generic-brand cards will 
> probably work, but name-brands are a crapshoot at best.
> 
> I used to recommend the Linksys WPC11, but now the only one you can find 
> in stores is the new rev4, which is based on an admtek chipset.  at 
> least they have some linux support, but it's a partial-binary driver 
> that has plenty of issues still.  
> 
> It's getting harder to find Orinoco cards.  Cisco cards work, but are 
> pretty expensive.  Prism2/2.5/3 are the best-supported, but you never 
> know what you're getting any more, because vendors change chipsets on a 
> whim and don't change the box.
> 
>  - Pizza
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