On Friday 13 February 2004 07:23 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Saturday 14 February 2004 00:55, lanman wrote: > > HarM; Look over your shoulder Dude! No! The other shoulder! See ? That's > > me lining up behind you for that wireless card! If I find anything, > > I'll let you know, and hopefully, vice-versa ? > > Ahah that was you, the hot breath in my neck all the time;) > > Yeah, I'm looking...all over e-bay too...they're hard to find. I've only > found one untill now. That's a linksys that uses prism1 chips....runs with > the orrinoco driver. Still got 3 more (older) laptops to go, though > admittedly even finding wired cards for them is getting hard. > On the other hand the Sitecom version 1 cards have prism2 chips and so do > the Belkin version 1 (version 2 and up run atmel chips) but the sitecom is > a cardbus afaik, so that would be slot 2 :( > If you've got PCMCIA slot 2 there's probably a USB slot too, so use > that....the Sitecom wl_012 works fine using the prism2_usb module with a > few workarounds. > > I did get a Sweex PCI card to play ball (as well as a cardbus) but not more > than 5.5Mb bitrate. These use rtl18080 ver2 chips.......stay away from them > if you can, only broadcom is worse. > > Good luck, > HarM
I use an Adaptec AWN-8030. It's a Prism2 and is easy to configure if you're not as technologically impaired as I am. Marc
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