[NTLUG:Discuss] A recommendation from the list?

[terry]

On 7/13/07, Daniel Hauck <daniel at yacg.com> wrote:
>
> Okay so lately, I have been tweaking Linux for a rather silly college
> girl.  I have convinced her to use Linux over Windows and so far she's
> loving it.  Her laptop, however, has some problems.
>
> She has an inspiron 6000 but the minipci slot seems to be messed up and
> potentially the PCMCIA slot as well.  The mini pci ipw2200 device in her
> laptop will not work and the replacement she bought performs
> identically.  I tried inserting a PCMCIA wireless device and the
> messages from "dmesg" is different from the dmesg reaction I get when I
> insert the same PCMCIA wireless device into my laptop's PCMCIA slot.
>
> She confessed that she spilled water into her machine some time ago...
> it was like 3 days before it would successfully power on again.
>
> Her USB ports work fine though... so here's the question!:
>
> What USB wireless devices are known to work well with Linux with minimal
> tweaking and setup?
>
> And on the off chance that her PCMCIA slot is actually okay, what PCMCIA
> wireless devices work best under Linux?
>
>
For PCMCIA:
A Sisco aironet 350 or 340 is fully supported:
http://cgi.ebay.com/CISCO-AIRONET-350-WIRELESS-LAN-ADAPTER-PCMCIA-CARD_W0QQitemZ180139384216QQihZ008QQcategoryZ42196QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
There's also orinoco:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ORINOCO-PCMCIA-LAPTOP-CARD-Wi-Fi-GOLD-LUCENT-WIRELESS_W0QQitemZ330146687287QQihZ014QQcategoryZ45000QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
More info:
http://www.goonda.org/wireless/
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