Wireless NIC

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Sat Sep 11 09:59:01 EDT 2004


On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:03:51 -0400 (EDT)
David Backeberg <dave at math.mit.edu> wrote:

> What drivers is the card supposed to be using? I've never heard of it 
> before. Is this one of those $8.95 specials from Microcenter? Cheap
> might not be the way to go on this, or at least not until you've
> chosen a compatible chipset. I haven't heard of "win-nics" but if the
> chipset only releases its specs under NDA, and the manufacturer
> doesn't release a linux driver, then it's as useless as a winmodem. If
> you do get it working, it still might be a PoS.
When I read Tony's post, I looked up that card, and it is selling
mailorder for $8.00.
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