[CLUG] Wireless NIC

[Dave Mulligan]

Sorry Walter, I clicked the reply to and not reply to all. (I keep doing that!)

I just got the same CNET PCMCIA card last night! I too am having
problems (strange one's at that). I'm running windows 2000 on the
laptop and perviously used a Linksys WAP11 which I was very happy
with.

Windows will startup as normally when the the card is not inserted
into the laptop, once booted I insert the card and it all works just
fine! However, if I boot windows with the card already inserted,
windows takes twice the time to boot up and when it has booted up,
explorer (not iexplorer) never starts correctly (doesn't display
desktop icons etc). Also the network card does not appear to correct
to the base station. I can see the connection using the supplied
utilities, just not access it



On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 04:51:52 -0800 (PST), Walter Higgins
<walterh at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> Which Wireless NIC do you use ?
> I recently got a CNET usb wireless dongle (CNUSB-611D) and (as a
> backup) a CNET pcmcia wireless card (CWC-854). Here are my impressions
> of each.
> I'd like to know what others are using and how they rate them...
> 
> Manufacturer part number: CNUSB-611D
> form factor: USB dongle
> driver for linux: http://at76c503a.berlios.de/
> reliabilty: v good
> 
> Manufacturer part number: CWC-854
> form factor: PCMCIA (cardbus)
> driver for linux: http://www.ralink.com.tw/supp-1.htm
> reliabilty: poor
> 
> of the 2, the usb-dongle has been the easiest to setup, the least
> problematic and the cheapest. I only have USB 1.0 on the laptop (its an
> old compaq armada) and the dongle could bend or break easily so what I
> would really like is a reliable fast PCMCIA wireless NIC.
> What are other people using ?
> 
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