Re: Wireless Support

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 06:43:09PM -0600, John Bell wrote:
> I have long been considering getting a wireless pcmcia card for my
> laptop.  I was just in Walmart and saw a DLink WPC11 for 25$.  Is this a
> good deal for this card and how well is is supported in linux?

I wouldn't mess with it unless you like building your own PCMCIA
drivers.  Stick with Orinoco or Aironet if you want the card to just
work on current Linux distributions.

And I'm not just saying that because I can get people reasonably good
deals on Orinoco cards.  ;-)

> Any recommendations on a low-cost WAP?

Just about anything will work, although if you hunt around a bit you
can probably find a deal on some older stock of Orinoco (usually from
Avaya or Lucent, pre-Agere) access points.

Steve
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