best non-PCMCIA wireless/wep/802.11b/g option

From: Hank Barta (hbarta_at_comcast.net)
Date: 12/19/04

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        My music player is an old VAIO laptop that only has one PCMCIA
        slot. Currently that slot is occupied by an RTL8180 based card.
        In addition to the fact that the RealTek drivers tie me to an archaic
        version of Linux, I'd like to free up the slot in order to plug in
        a CD player.

        Bandwidth is not a big concern since the S/W caches music locally,
        but 'g' would be nice since putting a 'b' device on my wireless LAN
        causes some degradation in throughput for 'g' clients.

        The laptop doesn't get moved around so something that requires power
        and/or is cabled to the laptop is not really a problem.

        The laptop (pcg-z505ls) has on board Ethernet so something like a
        game adapter would be great. Too bad they're so expensive. The other
        alternative looks like USB. (I'm not aware of any Firewire options
        and if available, they would likely be expensive anyway.)

        The laptop has pre-2.0 USB (1.1?) Is that adequate for 'b' or 'g'
        wireless?

        The processor is a 750 MHz Pentium and seems to have cycles to spare
        in the case that USB takes a lot to manage. I've always shied away
        from USB networking because of this, but for this application that
        would be less important.

        Suggestions for a cheap Linux supported wireless adapter?

        thanks,
        hank

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