[Novalug] PCMCIA WiFi Card Recommendation Needed...

[John B. Holmblad]

Kurt,

I just spoke to Proxim technical support and they confirmed that the 
current Proxim 802.11 PCMCIA cards are NOT natively supported in Linux. 
Thus, as with many of the other cards, an NDISwrapper solution would be 
required for their current product which is what I have in my small stock.

As stated before, the older Orinico Gold "Classic" cards with the Proxim 
(and perhaps Lucent as well) model number of 8410 have Linux drivers. 
Proxim itself no longer markets these cards so it is whatever is left in 
the channel including places like ebay.

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Kurt Harper wrote:
>
> ...desperately.  I have found what seem a number of possibilites on 
> places like linuxquestions.org, discussions of chipsets, ndiswrapper, 
> etc., but I often find the possibilities are discontinued or not 
> PCMCIA.  I cannot find an actual PCMCIA wifi card recommendation and 
> _where to buy it_ so I can try ndiswrapper or whatever.  Can anyone 
> recommend a PCMCIA card I can get to work with my two CentOS laptop 
> machines?  They work with an Ethernet connection, but need to be 
> beyond where my cable will reach.
>
> Boy, getting wireless set up under Linux is not for the faint of 
> heart.  I am so new at Linux I'm not sure.  Is it getting any better?  
> I thought of converting to Linux 18 months ago but gave up when I ran 
> into this same difficulty and it doesn't seem to have gotten much 
> better yet.
>
> Warmest thanks in advance for your help.
>
>     --Kurt
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