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[ale] WiFi PC Card Market



On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:37 -0400, Emil P. Man wrote:
> I would just get on ebay and buy an older one.. pretty much guranteed
> to 
> work. I have a netgear ma401 that is pretty well supported on linux.
>  It 
> uses the orinoco chipset and those are well developed modules on
> linux.

Ditto.  Look for an Older Orinoco Gold card that is only 802.11b.  Add
an extra benefit it will have an external ant. connector.  

For me its not at all about speed since the slowest part of my network
is Internet.  Transfers between my laptop and desktop can be slow but I
rarely transfer much.