[Lancaster] A good wireless PCI card

[Ken Hough]

I have a Netgear PCMCIA wi-fi card (WG511T) which was easy to set up and 
works well under SuSE Linux v9.1. It gives me 802.11g without trouble. 
No extra drivers needed.

I guess that the equivalent PCI card would do the same.

Ken

Martyn Welch wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been trying to get hold of a well supported wireless PCI card for a 
> number of weeks now, with little success. Wireless cards seem to be one of 
> those classes of hardware where good support is only available /after/ the 
> shops have stopped selling the device! Either that or after a revision 
> change, it still surprises me that hardware manufacturers will completely 
> change the device and just continue using the same part number!
> 
> Then I found this:
> 
> http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/
> 
> I bought one of the PCI cards. It turned up extremely quickly - over the 
> weekend. Though requiring a 32bit PCI slot (luckily the aging PC I wanted to 
> install one of these cards in did!), it was detected straight away by Ubuntu 
> as it should.
> 
> Linux Emporium even include their own CD with the drivers on just in case!
> 
> Martyn
> 
> 
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