Rico wrote:
> An older laptop (Pentium 4 about 386M memory) has just fallen into my
> hands and I was wondering what the 'most' compatable 802.11g card is
> for laptops? Orinico? Recommendations from those who have already
> installed and are working. I will likely put Fedora 4 on the laptop
> if that helps narrow down the 'best' option.
> I'm not looking to start a religious war about the best distro, I'm
> just looking for advice on pcmcia wifi cards that have good mod
> support.
>
> Thanks!
>
> fundamentalism, fundamentally wrong.

It's hard to generalize, but any card with a Prism II chipset can be
made to work, Orinoco, some Linksys (WPC11 ver 2.6&3.0), etc. You
distro should provide you with a list of wireless cards (probably mixed
in with wired NICs) in the network setup. The problem with the list is
that they tend to have a lot of European cards that share chipsets with
US cards and it's almost impossible to select from those lists without
knowledge of the chipset. The Prism II is a -b card, BTW. Stay far,
far away from Broadcom chipsets. Some can work with NDIS Wrapper, but
most are not supported.

You might post on a distro-specific forum for some specific
recommendations. Wireless in Linux is a work in progress.

[Packs bags, feeds dog, and leaves town in advance of the rushing mob of
Linux hacks descending on his house]

Q