[sclug] Pci / USB card for Suse 9.1

[Alex Butcher]

On Mon, 24 May 2004, Chris Aitken wrote:

>  
> > On Mon, 24 May 2004, Tim Sutton wrote:
> > 
> > > I just bought a new pc and want to connect it to my 
> > wireless network. 
> > > I bought a belkin pci card for it, but it turned out to be 
> > unsupported 
> > > so I returned it. Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced usb 
> > > (=preferred) or pci wireless network card (I only need a 'b' card 
> > > because the rest of my network is on b not g anyway). First prize 
> > > would be somewhere in Reading where I can just go an pick 
> > one up after 
> > > work :-P
> > 
> > The received wisdom seems to be that USB wi-fi cards are 
> > generally a bit dodgy, and that PCI cards are too close in 
> > price to dedicated APs to be economic.
> 
> Are you suggesting using a dedicated AP for this PC instead of a PCI
> wireless card?

That was the conclusion I came to after trying to find a make/model of PCI
wi-fi card that would *definitely* use a Prism (i.e. fully Linux-compatible)
chipset rather than "maybe Prism, maybe Broadcom, depending on the date
yours was built". That said, I was looking at 802.11g cards. The economics
might be slightly better for 802.11b cards.

Best Regards,
Alex.
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