On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:07:50AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:06:17PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me > > about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell > > me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't > > know). > > I posted this question last week when I lost the antenna to my Netgear > MA211 wireless lan card and was advised the best uptodate info was at > > http://Linux-Wireless.org > > That didn't help much. I then went to > > www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan-adapters.html.gz > > because I use the linux-wlan-ng=0.2.1-pre26 driver with my Netgear MA311 > card. From the table I ordered a 3com 3crdw696 PCI wireless lan card > for my second computer. I have not yet received the card and will > confirm that it works with the linux-wlan-ng driver when it comes. This > is old technology - 802.11b - but with a DSL connection downloads run at > 70 to 90 kBps. New 3com cards were being sold at $ 29.
The 3com card does work with the linux-wlan-ng driver but the range is terrible. In the same location where the Netgear MA311 card is connecting with a weak but acceptable signal the 3com card drops 25% of the packets when pinging the base station. > > Others may have better advice - it was frustrating trying to find the > latest and best information. > > Tom George > > > > > Thanks, > > Leonid Grinberg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]