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Linux PCI 802.11b wireless card support (?)



On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:52, dsr at tao.merseine.nu wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 03:31:44PM -0400, Rob Taylor wrote:
> > So, what have You used (card + driver) to wireless connect desktop Linux
> > boxes that performs well ? Thanks for any pointers/refs to relevant
> > info/tips.
> 
> Cisco Aironet and the Orinoco cards work really well. Apart from those,
> I can't really recommend anything.


+1 for the Orinoco cards.  And I've had good luck with a lot of the
cheap-o Prism-II-based cards such as those listed at:

  http://linux-wlan.com/linux-wlan/

though I can't recommend the wlan-ng driver (just use the Orinoco driver
for the Prism-II's).

Ed


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