Lansing, Dan wrote: >Try to stay away from the atheros chip set, I have heard of people getting this to work under *nix but I haven't had any luck myself >The only support I have found for this is the linuxant driverloader which is a wrapper for the windows drivers and is not free or madwifi which I think is currently only available via cvs, I have gotten this to recognize the card and find my wap but not associate >I would recommend checking out linux-wlan.com to see what chipset different cards have and what works the best > > > If I'm reading the site you mentioned above right, then this looks like a good match: D-Link 802.11b DWL-122 mini-USB Prism2/2.5/3 Linux--wlan-ng is linux-wlan-ng the driver? this is a usb wireless 802.11b interface - guessingusb might be a bit more usable - as I could us it on desktop PC that have a usb prot.... >Dan Lansing >ITSC > >-----Original Message----- >From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Johnnyfulcrum >Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 12:18 PM >To: TCLUG Mailing List >Subject: [TCLUG] quick recommendations on wireless... > >Wife was just put on bed rest for the last few months of her pregnancy - >and I figure it's a good time to make a push for wireless AP and a >PCMCIA card. > >I don't have much time to research and I'll need to buy the stuff from a >local merchant (best buy, circuit city, compUSA (if I must...), >mircocenter...) > >Have had bad experience with Linksys and would like to stay around $50 >or so... anyone know of any good deals around ?- must work with Linux >and win2k > >_______________________________________________ >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 > > > _______________________________________________ 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