You mean I might actually be able to use my home wireless network? I
bought an SMC access point/router and SMC 802.11b card. The box said
1500ft range. I'm lucky to get 20ft and only if there are no walls in
the way. Kind of useless. I can't work outside on the deck like I'd
hoped. LOL. I see several orinoco gold cards on ebay <$50. lots of
external antennas too. Would you recommend the silver over the gold? 

- Tom

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:08, Clay Fandre wrote:
> I second the Orinoco card. I have 2 laptops, one with an Orinoco
> Silver and another with a Linksys. I'm lucky to get a signal in many
> parts of my house with the Linksys while the Orinoco has no problems
> at all. Plus the Orinoco has an external antenna connector if I really
> want to have some fun.
> 
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Adam wrote:
> 
> > 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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