Reccomended Wireless card

Forum: Networking
Topic: Reccomended Wireless card
started by: Ian "Bill" Morris

Posted by Ian "Bill" Morris on June 09 2004,14:04

I have just got DSL running on an old laptop

Compaq LTE5250
Pentium 120
256 Mb hard disk
no cdrom
80 Mb Ram

What would be the chances of getting a pcmcia WLan working with it and can anyone reccomend one

Cheers

Bill

Posted by libretto on June 09 2004,14:19

I have been using a Netgear MA401 wireless card on my old laptop (Toshiba Libretto P120MHz 16bit PCcard slot) with great success.

Posted by Ian "Bill" Morris on June 09 2004,23:19

Thanks Libretto,

Just ordered one. From what I can tell this card is pritty easy to get working in Knoppix. Anything different in DSL?

Cheers

Bill

Posted by libretto on June 10 2004,09:34

Not that I'm aware of. You may need to edit a few config files to enable wireless. I would show you hte one from my uni but its for internal viewing only. If you search the forum or < The Linux Documetation Project > you will find details on how to setup the cards. Hope this helps and good luck

Posted by Ian "Bill" Morris on June 10 2004,17:27

Ah well I am sure I will work it out. I will note down exactly what I did and write it up for the FAQ section.

Cheers

Bill

Posted by Ian "Bill" Morris on June 12 2004,12:33

Ah well so much for the MA401 it has been discontnued

Any other suggestions?

Posted by cybered77 on June 20 2004,07:11

hello:

I reccomend you a ORINOCO LUCENT SILVER PCMCIA Card,, it works excellent in my laptop, no special instructions, no recompilation of drivers, nada! just plug it in and it works!

I have it on a Texas Instruments TI5300
P-133MHz, 32MB RAM, 1GB HD

Ed
San Luis Rio Colorado, Sonora Mexico

Posted by Trucker on July 09 2004,19:08

Quote (cybered77 @ June 20 2004,03:11)

I reccomend you a ORINOCO LUCENT SILVER PCMCIA Card,, it works excellent in my laptop, no special instructions, no recompilation of drivers, nada! just plug it in and it works!

Same here.
Nice card.

Posted by Ian "Bill" Morris on July 09 2004,19:49

Thanks,

I will see if I can source one.

Cheers Guys

Bill