wireless PCMCIA card

[Duane Attaway]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, I am Spartacus wrote:

> i'm looking to buy a wireless router and several wireless cards for my 
> home network.  the biggest obstacle i'm coming up against is finding a 
> PCMCIA wireless card that will work on my laptop running linux.  all of 
> them that i've found at best buy seem to require windows.  does anyone 
> have or know of a PCMCIA card that has been proven under linux?

As far as I know, just about any wireless card should work under Linux.  
Most of them at CompUSA, etc., either use the prism or orinoco chipset.  
The pcmcia cards use the pcmcia-cs drivers and if the box includes a
pcmcia like adapter (a crippled pcmcia chipset,) it will use the plx
driver.  All work fine with the free wlan software.  Also included in the 
wlan scripts is a switch to flip encryption keys around every several 
seconds.  Highly secure.

I got the linksys wpc11 card and works rather well.  If it says 802.11, it 
should work as that's the standard everyone demands.