Re: best wireless card for debian

From: Sridhar Srinivasan (sridhars_at_nc.rr.com)
Date: 08/04/03

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    On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:23:03PM -0400, Howell Evans wrote:
    > My vote is anything based on the prism2 chipset. I love my orinoco
    > silver card.
    >
    > cheers
    > -howell
    > Shri Shrikumar wrote:
    >
    > >Hi all,
    > >
    > >I recently purchased a dlink DWL 520+ card which uses the TI acx100
    > >chipset which so far only has binary drivers and it has not managed to
    > >work yet and I intend to put it on a server without module support. This
    > >leads me to the question.
    > >
    > >Which is the best card that I should go for for native linux support. I
    > >need 22mbps and am in the UK. Somewhere around ?40 is fine.

    If you look at linksys, make sure you check the version number on the
    box. the linksys WPC-11 is now being sold with version 4 which is NOT
    a prism2 chip but a realtek chip. drivers are available but i just has
    a terrible time getting it to work.

    sridhar 

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