Recommendation on PCMCIA Wireless cards with external atenna

[Liberty Young]

I'm using the D-link DWL-650..another prism2 based card.
I've successfully been using it on my Mandrake 8.2 laptop with
linux-wlan-ng drivers...
If you are going to use the Mandrake kernel, then download and install
the linux-wlan-ng version 0.1.14-pre2....this is the only version that
will work when compiled against a Mandrake kernel. I had the same sort
of dmesg messages when i didn't use the ng drivers. 

I used that version for a long time and had no complaints...one feature
it was missing was the ability to put the card into promiscious mode. 

If you are _not_ using a distro kernel, then the latest (i'm using
0.1.15) is fine..I've been using 2.4.19 (wanted to use ACPI), latest
card services, and the ng latest stable ng driver for a month now and
I've had no complaints. 


On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 16:47, Bryce C wrote:
> Stay away from USR cards in linux.  Support is just starting to creep in
> throught the prism2 modules but I've yet to get it working on SuSE 8.0
> and just barely on Mandrake 8.2.  Other than that, I've heard Orinoco is
> good by word of mouth.
> Also,  can someone please help me with the previously mentioned
> problem?  My dmesg output follows.
> init_module: prism2_cs.o: 0.1.13-devel1 Loaded
> init_module: dev_info is: prism_cs
> prism2_cs: CardServices release does not match!
> p80211.o: 0.1.13-devel1 Unloaded
> 
> Can someone please helpp besides saying "buy a new card" which I have no
> budget whatsoever for right now?
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 15:41, Liberty Young wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I work for a small company that is selling single board computers, one
> > of which has a PCMCIA slot. the PCMCIA slot will be primarily used for
> > 802.11b cards. We'd like to offer to our customers an off the shelf
> card
> > that is readily available. 
> > 
> > Does anybody have any recommendations for a good, off the shelf
> 802.11b
> > wireless card with an external antenna, or better yet, with a slot for
> > plugging in your own external antenna? Besides being readily
> available,
> > the card would have to be supported by linux. I'm currently looking at
> > orinocco cards. Does anybody have any other suggestions? 
> > 
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