Re: Wireless cards...

On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:43 -0700, John Hampton wrote:
> Tobias Rice wrote:
> > Greetings, all.
> > I need to buy a pcmcia wireless card that will be able to do wireless
> > auditing under linux. I'm getting conflicting suggestions about which
> > card to get. Prism I chipsets are open but very unstable. Some of the
> > others work well but offer no support in linux. I've also heard that
> > some of the manufactures changed chipsets w/o changing the model. Any
> > suggestions on a make and model that will work? External antenna jacks a
> > plus.
> 
> Look for Prism 2 and above chipsets.  I have a couple Linksys WPC11 v3 
> cards that work great.  No external antenna jack though.

Second that choice.  That card is basically plug and play.  Just watch
out for the v4 card which has a different chipset (I understand it can
work with some proprietary drivers and a bit of hacking, but screw
that).

Incidentally, Robby just bought a new wireless card that he got to work
under Linux and might share his experience, if he's not too uppity.

Regards,
Cliff

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Cliff Wells <[email protected]>