[SATLUG] PCMCIA 802.11g WPA Card?

[Al Castanoli]

On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 07:57 -0500, Mitch Thompson wrote:
> Jonathan Hull wrote:
> > The distro it will be used mostly on is Ubuntu (Xubuntu, technically)

> > On 8/25/07, Al Castanoli <afcasta at texas.net> wrote:
   
> >> On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 13:00 -0500, Jonathan Hull wrote:
     
> >>> Does anyone know of a good affordable PCMCIA WiFi G card with WPA that
> >>> works well with Linux? I have several PCMCIA cards but they either
> >>> don't have Linux drivers, are only B, or are WEP only (No WPA). I
> >>> found a few online that are G and WPA but I am not sure of which ones
> >>> work well with Linux. If anyone knows of one please let me know. WPA2
> >>> is not important, just WPA and 802.11G.
       
> >> Some cards work better with one distro of Linux, some work better with
> >> another... what distro and version are you looking to use this NIC on?

> At Office Max, there is a line of cards, by Belkin, called My
> Networking.  The PCMCIA card is an Atheros-based chipset, and works well
> with MadWifi.  The card works, but the lights on it do not.  This was
> with Debian Etch.

The atheros based Belkin 802.11G PCMCIA NIC that my son's using now in
his laptop required no special configuration on his Ubuntu distro - it
was detected upon bootup and was set up for DHCP.  We did have to dial
in WPA2 settings when I set up my Linksys WAP, but those held and it
connect automatically when he boots it.

Al Castanoli