[ale] Wirless NIC Advice

Zyman, Andy zymana at hra.nyc.gov
Fri Jul 11 14:25:34 EDT 2003


"I'm a proud owner" of SMC2635W. Still could make it work under RH8. But:
1. I haven't really tried.
2. under win2000 laptop (compaq m700 ) it works vveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerry
good - in terms of stability and range
3. i saw them for $26 on ......... forgot what site, but try to lookup on
fatwallet.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Preyer [mailto:JPreyer at sprich.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 2:22 PM
> To: 'ale at ale.org'
> Subject: RE: [ale] Wirless NIC Advice
> 
> 
> The Lucent Orinoco Gold Classic cards work wonderfully with Linux. 
> 
> Stay away from 3-Com cards; they stink.  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Kilroy, Chris [SMTP:Chris.Kilroy at turner.com]
> > Sent:	Friday, July 11, 2003 2:14 PM
> > To:	'ale at ale.org'
> > Subject:	RE: [ale] Wirless NIC Advice
> > 
> > I snagged a new Lucent Orinoco Gold card for $45 on ebay.  
> You can buy
> > them for as cheap as $57 or so from a "real" online store.  
>  I have only
> > used it with my wife's laptop (WinXP), so i cant comment on 
> how well it
> > works under Linux, but speaking on the hardware front, it 
> is awesome.
> > 
> > I've heard nothing but good things about it.  More detailed 
> infoz here: 
> > <http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Orinoco.html> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -> 
> > -> 
> > ->I'm building a laptap (old Dell Pentium III 500 MHz something 
> > ->or other) and purchasing a wireless NIC PC card for it.  I'll 
> > ->probably try to install SuSE Linux on it (because I've had 
> > ->good luck with SuSE installs in the past).  I'm looking at a 
> > ->Netgear (good luck with Netgear and Linsys equipment in the 
> > ->past and this is the cheapest) MA521 (802.11b) ($45) and was 
> > ->wondering if anyone knows: 
> > -> 
> > ->1) Will I have driver issues? 
> > ->2) Is there a better (cheaper/reliable) deal? 
> > -> 
> > ->Thanks, 
> > ->John Marasco 
> > -> 
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