[ale] WiFi PC Card Market

[Jeff Hubbs]

Dow - 

Not sure if it does or not - it's an IBM ThinkPad T20, I think.  I'll
have to check to see if it has a mini-pci slot.

Jeff

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:17 -0400, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> Jeff,
> Just a thought, if your wife's laptop has a mini-pci slot with a
> internal antennae that has never been used, you could go that route
> with the Intel IPW2200 card.  There was about a year ago a company, I
> have a bookmark to, that sold the prism chipset in a mini pci card
> config, if your interested in my posting that info.
> Dow
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>
> Sent: Sep 25, 2005 3:23 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] WiFi PC Card Market
> 
> I'm needing to buy a PC Card Wifi adapter for my wife's laptop and I'm
> not up on the Linux-supportedness of the makes and models one would find
> in the typical Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc.  I have a prism54
> card for my own laptop that works fairly well, but it's not my
> understanding that I can get the FooBar 65X3342 card and assume it has
> the same chipset as the FooBar 65X3342 card from two years ago.
> 
> I also have that classic problem that you can't really tell from the
> shrinkwrapped box just what chipset a Wifi card has, much less whether
> or not it's Linux-usable.
> 
> Jeff
> 
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