Wireless PCI Card

[Jeremy Baker]

I got mine from tigerdirect about 3 weeks ago.

Jeremy

On Friday 27 August 2004 13:28, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
> Jeremy Baker <jab at ...> writes:
> > If you are thinking of using the hostap driver, then I don't think any of
> > the "g" products have supported chipsets.  I successfully implemented
> > this with a DLink DWL-520 rev E1 which is an 802.11b pci card.  You need
> > rev A, B, E1, or E if you want a prism chipset.  I don't know about the
> > other brands.  I remember trying to find other models that have the prism
> > chipset, but everyone is pushing the g products now, so it is tricky.
>
> You can't buy the 'b' cards retail but seems to me that a few stores are
> now getting them back in a budget/remainder items.  For instance, someone
> picked me up a DLink 'b' Access Point for $25.  PCI wireless cards are
> harder to find than CardBus/PCMCIA, of course.
>
> To identify a card that comes in a generic box, there is always an ID #
> called the 'FCC ID' somewhere on the card.  FCC stands for Federal
> Communications Commission, a US gov't agency that maintains a database of
> communications hardware.  You can search the database to identify the maker
> of a card and so maybe figure out its chipset.
>
> http://www.fcc.gov/oet/fccid/
> http://www.driverzone.com/fcc_id_search.htm
>
> This site has a great list of Linux compatible networking devices.
>
> http://seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison
>
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