[Gllug] Wireless hardware

[will]

> My advice:
>
> DON'T buy D-Link, EVER. I've got an AP and 3 PCMCIA cards from them and
> they've ALL broken down after a few months.
>
> Netgear's ME102 AP works very well. I just got one of these from
> Insight (in fact I got two because Insight's website is broken and have
> yet to get my CC refunded).
>
> Belkin's AP works very well.
>
> Buy the cheapest possible Prism2-based clone PCI/PCMCIA/CF card you can
> find.  (You can now get them for under 30 quid in PCMCIA
> format). It'll almost certainly work and you won't have lost too much
> money if it doesn't. I got a Vianect card for 29 quid, and it works
> beautifully. I've also got a mixture of other cards, including a
> Buffalo CF card which is also recommended.

I bought an Orinoco Gold:

http://www.technetium.biz/acatalog/WiFi_for_Linux_computers.html

and a belkin PCI card:

http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201523&pcount=&Product_Id=125962

Both work fine with Linux.

Thanks for the advice everyone.

Will.



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