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From: "Ola Theander" <ola.theander@otsystem.com>
Subject: RE: Looking for a WLAN PC-Card (IEEE 802.11b) compatible with Linux.
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 23:04:13 +0200
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Hi Richard.

Thanks for your answer. I would prefer a PCMCIA card, instead of USB,
for my laptop if that's availiable. I havn't looked that close on the
page you suggested yet and perhaps they have recommendations there.

Kind regards, Ola

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pa3gcu [mailto:pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl] 
> Sent: den 28 augusti 2002 22:54
> To: Ola Theander; linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Looking for a WLAN PC-Card (IEEE 802.11b) 
> compatible with Linux.
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 28 August 2002 20:41, Ola Theander wrote:
> > Dear subscribers.
> >
> > I'm looking for a WLAN PC-Card that is compatible with 
> Linux. I have a 
> > Dell Inspiron 8000 running SuSE 8.0 and I would like to be able to 
> > connect to my school's WLAN.
> >
> > Kind regards, Ola Theander
> 
> I experimented with USB devices under linux a few months ago, 
> i was very 
> dissapointed at that time.
> However dont dispair, it was reported at that time that PCI 
> Wlan cards worked 
> quite well.
> 
> I tryed with an aktiontec USB adaptor, i did manage to 
> receive data with it 
> but it was very unstable, please note, i said, at that time, 
> i belive the 
> development has gone a long way since i tryed it all but, its 
> still under 
> development.
> 
> I just took another look at;
> http://www.linux-wlan.com/
> and it seems development has indeed come along very well.
> 
> I hope thats a startingpoint for you.
> 
> -- 
> Regards Richard
> pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
> 
> 
> 


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