[GLLUG] PCMCIA Wireless network card

[Karl Schuttler]

The orinoco carrds have prism chipsets, which should just work

On 6/15/07, Charles Ulrich <charles at idealso.com> wrote:
> On Friday 15 June 2007 14:17, Michael George wrote:
> > My mom has a Toshiba Satellite with 2 PCMCIA slots in it and she
> > wants it to do the wireless thing.  It runs XP Home (but her other
> > computer is a Power Mac :) but I'd also like a card which is
> > supported by Linux if possible.
> >
> > I would appreciate any recommendations y'all could give...
>
> Any card using the Atheros chip will work well on pretty much every OS.
> On Linux, the drivers go by the name madwifi. Nearly every wifi card
> manufacturer has a few of these. See this:
>
> http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
>
> I don't guarantee that it's 100% current, but it should be a good start.
> One thing that I've found works well is checking to see what models the
> local and online vendors carry, jot down a few, and then Googling
> "$modelNumber Linux" and seeing what comes up.
>
> --
> Charles Ulrich
> Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com
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