Re: [LUG] Cheap PCMCIA Wireless LAN

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robin Cornelius wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> For all you laptop users, maplin electronics has some Binatone WL1000 802.11b+ 
> PCMCIA cards for £12.99. While these don't work "out of the box" on linux 
> (certanly not on mandrake anyway) a quick trip to 
> http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php will get everything working in 
> 15 minutes or so. (Binaries provided for different distros as well). 
>  
What's the range like?  Does it have a connector for an external antenna?

I wouldn't mind having a muck about with this, it's got to the price 
point where even miserly people like myself can justify buying one on 
novelty value alone :-)  What's linux auto-network-detection like at 
present?  Not up to MacOS X standards, I presume?

Cheers,

Jon


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