[GLLUG] WLAN Purchase

[Rich Clark]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Brian Hoort wrote:

> I'm thinking about purchasing a wireless Access Point/Switch/NAT and 
> associated cards.  How goes the experience for WLAN and Linux these 
> days?  Stable working drivers for most NICs?  There shouldn't be any 
> compatibility problems with the routers, right?

I've been using wireless for about two years here.  I've had excellent 
success with Orinoco pcmcia cards, good success with Linksys cards 
(some of the cards were either flaky, or didn't stand up to the abuse of a 
laptop falling off the sofa when the cat jumped up, etc), and am currently 
using a Belkin 54g F5D7010 pcmcia nic in my laptop (as I write this) using 
ndiswrapper with the Windows drivers.  I use Mandrake, and have had a 
laptop of some sort doing wireless since v9.0.

If you need help or tips, please drop a line.

Rich
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