Re: NetGear WAG511 Most Linux Friendly PCMCIA Wireless Card

In comp.os.linux.hardware, Rikishi 42 had the audacity to say that:

On 2007-07-22, Rockinghorse Winner <rockinghorse@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently returned from a journey on the web, looking for linux friendly
pcmcia cards, in anticipation of a new desktop I am assembling. You see,
wireless is my main path to the internet. It was a lesson in frustration, as
I'm looking for one myself, for an old laptop on which I read my news.
So, thanks for mensionning the brand/model.

But something puzzles me: why would you need a pcmcia card ... for a new
desktop? Did you means new laptop, or did you mean wifi-card?



I would connect via pci adapter, easier to swap out diff cards, important
when you're trying to find one that works ;)

*R* *H*

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"I'll take the nice ones with simple installers etc, because to me, thats the
whole and only point of using a distribution in the first place."
Linus Torvalds (2007)
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