I'm running an Proxim Orinoco Silver card and have had great success with
it. It has a much better antenna than my linksys or netgear wifi cards.
Works will with RH9 havent tried it with 8.

Adam


> Matt Thoren wrote:
>> I am considering buying a wireless pcmcia card for my laptop running
>> RH8.
>> What is the most linux friendly card to buy?
>
> no experience personally, my laptop has wi-fi built in.  You want a Prism
> based chipset I believe.  I've heard good things about Netgear MA401,
> which is a 16-bit card, but again, not personal experience with it.
> It also depends on what speed/standard you want to interface with.
> 802.11b is probably in most widespread usage.
>
> you could also try asking the wireless users group (TCWUG)
> http://www.tcwug.org/
>
>> Where are the best wifi locations in the Twin Cities?
>
> I've put together a small list of some wireless spots here:
> http://thinkunix.net/unix/networking/wireless/
>
> --
> scot
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