[SATLUG] 54 a/g card recommendations?

[Eli]

those are great cards, but i think he wanted 54g in pci, no?

~e


> go to www.fab-corp.com <http://www.fab-corp.com> and look for their
> orinoco
> classic gold card. it's about $60 but it works in Win/Lin/MacOS and it has
> an external antenna on it.. :)
>
>
> FIRESTORM_v1
>
> On 8/30/05, Mark D. McCoy <mark at mccoyfam.net> wrote:
>>
>> Tom Weeks wrote:
>> > Hey all..
>> >
>> > Couple of WiFi geek Questions:
>> >
>> > 1)
>> > I need to buy a 802.11a/g 54 PCI card for my Myth.. and was looking
>> for
>> a
>> > recommendation for something with either an Atheros (MadWiFi driver)
>> or
>> > PrismDuette ISL3890/1260:3890 (Prism54 driver) based cards?
>> >
>> > 2)
>> > Regarding card recommendations... Would anyone also be able to suggest
>> a
>> > good/the best 54a/g PC-Card (aka PCMCIA, even though they're
>> different)?
>> > Something that's external antenna ready or hackable would be
>> preferred.
>> >
>>
>> Locally, finding a Linux-compatible card might be hard. I had to get
>> the NetGear wg311, and the only ones I could find were v2 cards with the
>> TI chipset. I had to use ndiswrapper to get them working. They
>> actually do work great under ndiswrapper (1.2).
>>
>> I picked up a Hawking 54g PCI card that was supposed to be compatible,
>> but Hawking changed the chipset without changing either the model number
>> or the revision of the card. There was no mention on the card or the
>> box that it was a different card. I returned it immediately.
>>
>> If you have a couple of computers near each other, you can get a
>> wireless bridge for about $60 ($70 for one with a built-in 4-port hub).
>> I know that might seem like a lot, but I was able to just use all of my
>> existing network cards (for which there are great linux drivers) and
>> bridge onto the wireless network. I have my whole "lab" (really just my
>> garage) on my wireless network without any hiccups whatsoever.
>>
>> My laptop uses an older 'b' card, but it works great in linux, so I'm
>> not going to even try to upgrade it!
>>
>>
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