Wireless PCMCIA Card...

[Orsorum]

Just curious to see if anyone had any recommendations as to a good wireless PCMCIA card, type II. It'd be for use on a college campus, an IBM notebook. Thanks for all your recs!

 

[zeruty]

I've been looking into this lately and most people seem to be suggesting the lucent orinoco

 

[Orsorum]

<< I've been looking into this lately and most people seem to be suggesting the lucent orinoco >>



Cool! I've actually been looking into that quite a bit. Thanks!

 

[Orsorum]

This one any good?

I think this is what I'm looking for...

 

[zeruty]

that is a good one
if you get the gold version, however, you can do 128bit wep encryption rather than just 64, which is more secure... hopefully someone else will pipe in and tell you how it's more secure, I dont know all the details

 

[Orsorum]

<< that is a good one
if you get the gold version, however, you can do 128bit wep encryption rather than just 64, which is more secure... hopefully someone else will pipe in and tell you how it's more secure, I dont know all the details >>



Hehe, rock on...

 

[SaigonK]

Get a Cisco 340 or 350 series. They both support 128bit encryption.

 

[andrey]

I'm using Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card on my laptop. From my experience, this is the only card which works relatively well in Linux. I also tried Linksys wireless PCMCIA card before and as far as range, Orinoco seemed to work for much longer distances without loosing the signal quality. That's and Linux compatibility which I mentioned above made me stay with Orinoco instead of Linksys.

 

[Orsorum]

Cool - thank you both for your recommendations.