[wellylug] Wireless card that works with Debian

Sam Sargeant sam at cuba.st
Tue Mar 16 17:47:08 NZDT 2004


On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:40:07AM +0000, JP wrote:
> All this talk about Cafe-Net has made me consider
> buying a PCMCIA wireless card for my laptop, which
> runs Debian Woody.
> 
> Does anybody know of a card that works without fuss on
> that distro?  I'm happy to load modules, but would
> prefer to avoid a kernel compile.

I have a 3COM prism54 802.11g card which works well, but requires some setup to
get the driver working.

<http://www.ascent.co.nz/mn-product-spec.asp?pid=114218>
<http://www.prism54.org/> 

I also have some Orinoco cards that work well with a stock kernel (and even
better with kismet after some minor patching) :)

Sam.
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