new pci card that works?
"Zooko O'Whielacronx" <[email protected]> 5 Jan 2005 12:34:30 -0400
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> From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <[email protected]> > To: "Steve Hill" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], "Kerry Krumpelstaeder" <[email protected]>, > "Richard Atterer" <[email protected]>, > "Sebastian Kuzminsky" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] new pci card that works? > > I bought an XG-900 from zcomax.com. They were fast and courteous and > charged only USD 89.00 and threw in free shipping via UPS. > (Unfortunately I had to pay import duties of around CAD 50.00 when it > arrived in Canada. I thought there was supposed to be Free Trade > between USA and Canada? Oh well.) > > I had no trouble installing it with Ubuntu, but I had very bad behavior > from it for a long time, but those turned out to be IRQ conflicts. (I > thought IRQ conflicts were a thing of the past? Oh well.) > > Having moved my XG-900 to a different PCI slot and confirmed that it > has an IRQ all to itself, it is working fine, although I haven't tested > it at range nor with high load. It is doing 802.11g with a Linksys > wrt54g router and next to an Apple Mac laptop with Airport Extreme. > > Regards, > > Zooko >