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I thought it was dumb, too.

There is a mini-pci card that can be plugged in that has both ethernet
NIC support AND wireless b support. The problem is the lack of an
antenna in the T20. You would have to find a way to route one yourself.

I bought Orinoco gold pcmcia cards off ebay.

On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 18:42 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> Dow - 
> 
> Not sure if it does or not - it's an IBM ThinkPad T20, I think.  I'll
> have to check to see if it has a mini-pci slot.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 17:17 -0400, Dow_Hurst wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > Just a thought, if your wife's laptop has a mini-pci slot with a
> > internal antennae that has never been used, you could go that route
> > with the Intel IPW2200 card.  There was about a year ago a company, I
> > have a bookmark to, that sold the prism chipset in a mini pci card
> > config, if your interested in my posting that info.
> > Dow
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>
> > Sent: Sep 25, 2005 3:23 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] WiFi PC Card Market
> > 
> > I'm needing to buy a PC Card Wifi adapter for my wife's laptop and I'm
> > not up on the Linux-supportedness of the makes and models one would find
> > in the typical Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc.  I have a prism54
> > card for my own laptop that works fairly well, but it's not my
> > understanding that I can get the FooBar 65X3342 card and assume it has
> > the same chipset as the FooBar 65X3342 card from two years ago.
> > 
> > I also have that classic problem that you can't really tell from the
> > shrinkwrapped box just what chipset a Wifi card has, much less whether
> > or not it's Linux-usable.
> > 
> > Jeff
> > 
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