On Monday 28 March 2005 05:10 pm, Mr. Geek wrote: > Can someone suggest a good Cardbus wireless card for me? I'm hoping to > get a Wireless "G" card for my HP laptop, especially now that I found > the cardbus slot! > > As I understand it, wireless G will allow me to connect to 802.11 'B' & > 'G' enabled networks with speeds up to 54Mbps, so this is preferred to > either 'B' or 'A' cards. > > Even so, I'd still prefer one that can use Linux native drivers and has > no need of the ndiswrapper package. > > I'm running KDE 3.4 on ML - Limited Edition 2005 (read as Cooker) with a > 2.6.11-6mdksmp kernel on an HP ZD7000 laptop with a 3.2Ghz Full P4 (with > Hyper-Threading, of course!), and 512MB's of Ram. > > Theoretically, that should do the trick if I can find a good card for > it. I'd appreciate it if someone could also suggest the right wireless > packages for setting up the card. > > That's probably asking a lot, but what the heck,...it's worth a try! > > TIA. I picked up an Orinoco Gold OEM card on E-bay for 29 bucks plus shipping. It worked with the madwifi package installed and then I used kwifimanager I think it was to see what connection strength was. I can give you a URL for the guy I bought it from on ebay, he has all sorts and some with antenna connectors and antennas. He has them on buy it now so it is not an auction but a quick purchase. I will post the URL if you like. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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