On February 13, 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;)
Hey! I wasn't standing THAT close ! LOL! > > 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 HarM; Have a look at this site; http://www.gvc.ca They too have the atmel chip cards in G format. None of the lists I've seen mention them, so I'm not sure if they'd work or not, but I sometimes do Linux testing for them, so I'm going to call them for a demo unit and see what's what. I'll keep you posted because they have a great deal on a G-rated router and laptop card in a bundle for under $180.00 Canadian. Lanman -- Registered Linux user #190712 "Smart IT people are staring out the window into the eye of a giant penguin!"
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