[plug] Wireless recommendations

[intra at slowest.net]

I would say that the orinocco and prism chipset are the most 
widely supported and easiest to configure. Try Applicon for
some cheap wireless cards (Orinocco chipset).

Its been a while since i've done wireless, those were the days..


Peter.

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:23:32PM +0800, Stephen Boak wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I'm lookin to buy a couple of wireless network cards to experiment
> with while  I am in Perth (that is I want to buy them here, not play
> with them here), so I am asking for recommendations of what people
> are using. There seems to be qite a large range available, every shop
> selling a different brand :)
> 
> PLE are selling what they call 'WNET Generic' 802.11b cards - I have
> not had time to call them about details yet so don't know if they are
> suitable. Their website gives no details or links. I really like the
> look of the Belkin 54g pcmcia/pci cards, but they are aparently
> unsupported as yet under Linux. 
> D-Link seem to be a good bet.
> 
> I have searched the plug archives, and was suprised this has not come
> up as a subject before, or is the search broken? It did take nearly 8
> minutes to do the search.
> 
> Ta
> 
> Steve
> 
>