[Gllug] Wireless Networking (fwd)

[Jonathan Dye]

At 14:51 25/03/02 +0000, you wrote:
>>.. i dont want to set up a node, just to connect via a PCMCIA card
>>to the network...
>
>You have answered your own question :-) Just insert a PCMCIA card and
>the drivers/software that will come with it for your system and look
>for your local network. No special settings, passwords etc needed.

So if I just buy a PCMCIA wireless network card then I can just expect the
linux drivers to come with it?  I don't think so!

>>any reccomendations of cards, too?
>
>The Buffalo/Lucent/Orinoco/Agere ones seem to be most popular (they
>are all the same cards with different badges)

Do they all work OK in Linux, it seems from the above paragraph that you
forgot that I wanted to configure it to work in linux.

JD

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