[olug] Suggestion for a PCMCIA Wireless Ethernet Card

[Don Kauffman]

I've had mixed results with netgear wireless. My  first card was a WG511
and I had to return that because it didn't work even with ndiswrapper. I
can look up the details if anyone is interested. I then purchased a
netgear WG511T and that has performed really well. There is a gnu/Linux
driver for it and I'm using that rather than ndiswrapper.

That said, Netgear has been known to change the firmware and certain
kinds of firmware will not respond well. That's what happened to the
earlier WG511 even though it had a driver built for it in linux. I found
out that the firmware had changed over the course of making it and the
type they were using in that specific one was not at all compatible even
using ndiswrapper. I tried using ndiswrapper with it and then found out
this info. So YMMV. 



Don 

 
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 16:30 -0600, Paul & Debbie Lewis wrote:
> I'm a newbie with wireless Ethernet and Linux.  I was given a IBM ThinkPad
> 385ED and am going to load Linux with IceWM onto it, but I need to add a
> Ethernet card.  Can I get a recommendation for a card?  I noticed CompUSA
> has US Robotics cards for less then twenty...will they work with Linux?
> 
> I'm looking to load Debian using one of the Knoppix's hacks.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul
> 
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