>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Zbikowski <(Zibby)" <zibby+tclug at ringworld.org>> writes:

    Andy> The wireless access HOWTO Scot pointed out has a good run
    Andy> down of Wireless cards under Linux. From memory, orinoco,
    Andy> wavelan2, airport, airo, and prism2 cards are the more
    Andy> popular picks for Linux. The standout being prism2 cards as
    Andy> they can be made to function as an Access Point. For
    Andy> security people, Airo, Prism2, and Orinoco are perfered as
    Andy> they are supported by tools like AirSnort.

    Andy> Locally, my guess is your best bet for finding the cards is
    Andy> at MicroCenter, as they tend to stock network gear from
    Andy> folks other than Netgear, D-Link, and Linksys (as well as a
    Andy> wider selection of gear from said companies, like their
    Andy> network print servers)


IIRC, one needs to be careful with the Linksys cards, because you
don't know what chipset you're buying.  At least with the PCI cards,
they swapped from the nicely-supported prism2 chipset to something
completely unsupported, without being nice enough to change the model
number!

R

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