wireless cards for laptop

[Bill Cavalieri]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 00:17 -0600, Frank Wiles wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:49:59 -0600
> Tom Bruno <tom at limesg.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have a Dell TrueMobile 1150, it is an Orinico chipset, fully 
> > supported, and with a kernel patch you can
> > even use kismet with it for war driving.
> 
>   Be very careful with Dell on this sort of thing.  Dell changes out
>   the chipsets and does not change model numbers or anything you can
>   see externally ( website, specs, etc. ) to reflect it. 

Be careful of any card, I have 2 linksys 54g's same model number
different revisions, one works native Linux the other requires
ndiswrapper.

Most of the manufacturers are not tied to any certain radio, just what
is the cheapest they can buy when doing a run of product.