Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

[Stephan Grein <stephan.grein@gmail.com>]

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Stroller wrote:

>
> On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote:
>
>> On 7/23/05, Ian K <omega_2_1@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless
>>> to set up. I dont know what chipsets are on what cards, so
>>> perhaps you could give me a model name and brand? I really just
>>> want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank
>>> you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian
>>>
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl
>
>
> AIRSTATION 11MBPS WIRELESS PCMCIA LAPTOP CARD PC/MAC
>
>> That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous page
>> that they offer an 802.11g card for $30 but I'm not sure about
>> driver compatibility.
>
>
> The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom
> chipset as Apple's "Airport Extreme" products - I know, because I
> sold three of these cards to another Mac-reseller last week. I
> believe that there are no open-source drivers for this chipset, and
> have seen NDISwrapper referred to in many forums articles relating
> to it.
>
> This is not a comment on the 802.11b 11MBPS card that your link
> points to - for all I know that may use the excellently-supported
> Prism chipset.
>
> Stroller.
>
Get an Atheros or Prism54 based chipset, then all will be good. :)
cheers.
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