Pcmcia wireless cards

[ed at eh3.com (Ed Hill)]

On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 18:29 +0100, Eoin McLoughlin wrote:
> Heading to boston from europe next week, looking to pick up some new
> geek toys.
> 
> What I'm looking for is a pcmcia wireless card, that (yes, i know this is a
> tall order) is will work on linux without using either ndiswrapper or
> hostap, connect to g networks, and allow an external antenna to be
> attached (preferably without too much hassle) and not be excessively
> expensive. Also, if I can use xsupplicant or wpasupplicant without
> kernel panics, its a plus, but I can survive without it.
> 
> Does anyone know where to get such a sacred item, either in
> a physical shop, or from an internet site (as long as they can ship
> internationally)?

Hi Eoin,

I *think* one of the atheros-based cards at netgate:

  http://www.netgate.com/index.php?cPath=26_39

will do almost everything that you listed (802.11b/g, external antenna,
and not need hostap or ndiswrapper), but I can't confirm it.

Ed

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