Any suggestion of buy a wireless pci card?

Richy eric1i at 163.com
Sun Feb 8 04:04:58 UTC 2004


Mike Watson wrote:
> Of all those currently sold, the NetGear MA311 PCI card for PC still uses the 
> Prism chipset.  It will drop in and fly under Fedora.  The LapTop version is 
> the Netgear MA411.  Both Netgear and Linksys Wireless Access Points work fine 
> with these cards.  BTW, be sure to use encryption or your neighbor could be 
> using your internet access.  Especially if  you have DHCP running.
> 
> A problem with the current crop of cards is that the 54GHz versions are 
> selling, pushing out the older cards.  The chipsets used in these new cards 
> either doesn't exists or is of limited functionality.
> 
> There is a shill floating around the mail list pushing a commerical product 
> that might work.  I just don't like paying for SW when I don't have to.  
> That's one reason why I don't use M$.
> 
> Mike W
> 
> On Thursday 05 February 2004 1:46 am, Richy wrote:
> 
>>I plan to use wireless network with my Fedora Core 1 at home. I got two
>>PC in my home, one used by my wife is a laptop with winxp, the other
>>desktop with fedora used by myself. I want to install a wireless LAN in
>>my home and connect to internet by ADSL.
>>
>>So, it seems that I need a wireless access point with ADSL and a
>>wireless pci card. Is there any suggestion about purchase a wireless pci
>>card for my fedora? I usually find buy a hardware for linux need more
>>attention.
>>
>>Thanks for any suggestion!
>>
>>
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> 
Thank you! I am interested in Netgear WG311, has any one got the 
experience of using it?





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