[ale] Wirless NIC Advice

[AMIT AGRAWAL]

Sorry I was out of sync with this list for a while. And now this is a topic
of my interest.

Any network card as of now works pretty well with Linux. I have myself used
Ornico,Linksys and Dell cards on Linux in both Dell and Gateway laptops. My
experience with Linux was with Red Hat and I expect pretty good performance
with Suse also.

If you need help installing it just ask me. Although with red hat it is more
like plug-n-play but you might need some extra-info for which all you got to
use are the standard interfaces like you use for a normal ethernet card.

take care

Amit
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Marasco" <jemarasco at bellsouth.net>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: [ale] Wirless NIC Advice


> I'm building a laptap (old Dell Pentium III 500 MHz something or other)
and purchasing a wireless NIC PC card for it.  I'll probably try to install
SuSE Linux on it (because I've had good luck with SuSE installs in the
past).  I'm looking at a Netgear (good luck with Netgear and Linsys
equipment in the past and this is the cheapest) MA521 (802.11b) ($45) and
was wondering if anyone knows:
>
> 1) Will I have driver issues?
> 2) Is there a better (cheaper/reliable) deal?
>
> Thanks,
> John Marasco
>
>
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