Which Wireless PCMCIA card?

[flem1968]

Hi
I am running Mandrake 10.1 on my laptop Dell C800 and would like to buy a wireless LAN card for it either PCMCIA or USB can anyone recommend one? one that is the least hassle to set-up and easily configured
Chris

[hard candy]

Here is one list:
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz

And another:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

I use a SMC and a Linksys, both wireless G cards, with a driver wrapper (it uses the windows driver and "wraps around" it so that linux can interact with the card).
www.linuxant.com has a version- $20 after a 30 day trial
and ndis has a version- free trial forever :) :
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

[merclude]

i suggest a prism card, not the easiest in the world to setup (it can be, but the good drivers arent in the kernel)...but, damn, prism cards just kick ***.

im talking prism chips, the chip in the card, quite a few manufacturers use them.

[YeNotGuilty]

I've heard decent things about both Linksys and D-Link wireless stuff integrating with Linux (and I work at a Best Buy where I get this stuff all the time), the only problem I've seen is the setup CD that comes with them usually only has Windows drivers on them, so your hardware config may not work until you download a newer driver from them or a third party.

I've also heard that Prisms are the best running in linux, although they tend to be a pain in the a** to install, but once you do, you shouldn't have any trouble. Just make a text file that had all your setup instructions in there that you can throw on a CD or something like that so you have a backup in case you screw your hard drive later.

[JayMan8081]

A friend of mine just got the DWL-G650 PCMCIA card from D-Link and got it up and working in SuSe 9.2 Pro. It uses an Atheros chipset which is supported by the MadWiFi project. Most distros include that driver as a module with their kernel. So then all you need to do is enter relevant info such as ESSID, channel, WEP key, etc. into the GUI config tool.

[ehawk]

When I open the graphical network configuration utility, the card is reported as autodetected, and the wavelan driver is offered by default. Works perfectly. WEP is enabled, but not WPA. I am told that the new orinoco combo b/g cards have WPA enabled, but I do not know if they would be similarly autodetected.