[KLUG Members] Wireless NIC recommendations.

[Buist Justin]

I've actually had pretty good luck with the Linksys/Netgear cards.  They're really the same thing, based off the prismII chipset.  However, that might be because I was running 2.4.17, pcmcia-cs, and linux-wlan packages that were all compiled from the brand spanking-est new source at the time (November/December 2001).

I haven't updated in a while, but the last time I pulled it out everything worked perfectly fine, even with WEP.

Justin Buist


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Bultman [mailto:adamb@glaven.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 9:26 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: [KLUG Members] Wireless NIC recommendations.
> 
> 
> 
> I've been tinkering with Wireless here for a laptop I'm 
> (hoping to) get
> from work.  I've got a temp right now - a 233 - and I'm 
> trying to get a
> nic to work.  I had (as I posted previously) a linksys, that 
> didn't work
> right out. I took it back, and got a netgear -- a card 
> supported by eithe
> rlinux or the wlan project. This has problems, too. I've been 
> told by my
> roommate that buffalo cards are good, but what cards ARE 
> good?  This one
> works well, except for at sporadic times, I get a hundred or 
> so of these
> in my messages file:
> 
> eth0: Error -110 writing Tx descriptor to BAP
> 
> 
> Then I have to pull the card out, put it back in, and then re-run my
> wireless script (for WEP).
> 
> So, that's what I've got.  I'm thinking either orinoco or 
> buffalo, but if
> there are (ahem) good, cheaper ones in wide use, I'd like to hear
> about them.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Adam Bultman
> adam@glaven.org
> [ http://www.glaven.org ]
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