[NCLUG] Wireless cards and Linux

[Prescott Oelke]

 Hi Matt,

 It ain't exactly cheap but Orinoco (formerly WaveLan) is what I use and I
have never had a single problem with any of it. They provide linux drivers
and they are compatible with the 802.11b standard. If you want to get it all
a little cheaper you can get the Orinoco PCMCIA cards and order up one of
Apple computer's airport base stations, of course you'll need to find a way
to set it up (ie. an airport savy Mac, I know of no other way).

Hope this is of some help,

Prescott Oelke

On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 21:32:57 -0700, nclug at nclug.org wrote:

>  Hi NCLUGers,
>  
>  I'm thinking about setting up wireless at home and was wondering what
other 
>  people are doing and if they have any recommendations. I want 802.11b
gear for 
>  compatibility reasons so that rules out the Webgear cheap stuff. I need
two 
>  PCMCIA cards and an access point. I did some searching on pricewatch and
found 
>  that DLink has some cheap stuff. Does anybody know what the driver
situation 
>  is? I know someone did a generic driver a while back ( 
>  http://www.linux-wlan.com/ ? )but last I had heard it was out of date.
>  
>  Basically I'm being lazy and wondering if anybody can make
recommendations for 
>  gear that works well with Linux.
>  
>  Thanks,
>  
>  -- 
>  Matt Taggart
>  taggart at fc.hp.com
>  
>  
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