Re: Wireless network cards

although it wasn't quite your question, the internal intel's have good
to decent support under linux.  and while a bit of an annoyance, the
broadcom based chipsets work relatively well with the ndiswrapper
drivers.

On 6/1/05, Ryan Schiffbauer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Andrei,
> 
> With GNU/Linux, the Orinoco (Gold?) cards are always best.  They're
> manufactured now by a company Proxim and they make a 802.11 b/g model.  My
> laptop has bad-to-nonexistent support under linux for the built-in card, so I
> bought one of these Orinoco cards on eBay for pretty cheap a couple weeks ago
> and it works GREAT.  You'll find several on eBay, or just type "orinoco gold"
> into Froogle.
> 
> Just pop it in then run "ifconfig ath0 up" and then "dhclient ath0" and you're
> off and running.  I just did it this morning at the Moose.
> 
> You can also get them with external antenna connections if you're into
> wardriving, etc.  But the internal antenna is pretty good.  I was surfing on
> Panera's hotspot today from the Eat N Park parking lot.  :)
> 
> That being said, I understand that kernel support has recently been added for
> the Intel Centrino chips.  My brother has one in his laptop and he said it
> works find under gnu/linux right out of the box.
> 
> Support for most other cards is sketchy as best, as I understand it.  I've
> never had any luck with other cards, as they tend only to have Mac/Windoze
> support.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 15:18, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> > I need to buy a wireless network card for my HP laptop. I looked around
> > and all the time I only see Windows listed under supported OS, and no
> > Linux mentioned at all. Can it be the situation like was early on with
> > modems, that some cards will require special Windows and only work on
> > Windows? Or are they all Linux compatible?
> >
> > I'm looking at PCMCIA, 802.11b/g
> >
> > Does any one know of any deals? Or maybe can suggest a good vendor?
> >
> > Andrei
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