I second the Orinoco card. I have 2 laptops, one with an Orinoco Silver and another with a Linksys. I'm lucky to get a signal in many parts of my house with the Linksys while the Orinoco has no problems at all. Plus the Orinoco has an external antenna connector if I really want to have some fun. On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Adam wrote: > I'm running an Proxim Orinoco Silver card and have had great success with > it. It has a much better antenna than my linksys or netgear wifi cards. > Works will with RH9 havent tried it with 8. > > Adam > > > > Matt Thoren wrote: > >> I am considering buying a wireless pcmcia card for my laptop running > >> RH8. > >> What is the most linux friendly card to buy? > > > > no experience personally, my laptop has wi-fi built in. You want a Prism > > based chipset I believe. I've heard good things about Netgear MA401, > > which is a 16-bit card, but again, not personal experience with it. > > It also depends on what speed/standard you want to interface with. > > 802.11b is probably in most widespread usage. > > > > you could also try asking the wireless users group (TCWUG) > > http://www.tcwug.org/ > > > >> Where are the best wifi locations in the Twin Cities? > > > > I've put together a small list of some wireless spots here: > > http://thinkunix.net/unix/networking/wireless/ > > > > -- > > scot > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Clay Fandre email: clay at fandre.com PGP Key ID: 0x50DBBB60 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list