Re: [Hampshire] Wireless PCI card for Linux

On 05/11/2007, Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
> ** Russell Gadd <rustleg@???> [2007-11-04 19:38]:
> > I shortly expect to have an old Windows 98 PC which is being given away
> > (don't know the precise spec at present) and I thought of putting in a
> > wireless PCI card to connect to our 80211g wireless router and installing
> > Ubuntu to use it for web surfing. Could someone suggest a suitable card or
> > card family or let me know how I can check the spec of a card so it will
> > work with Linux? I might buy something from Ebay. Thanks.
> ** end quote [Russell Gadd]

I had an old Panasonic ToughBook with W98 on it and did the same
thing. Ubuntu (dapper/Edgy at that time) was OK with a D-Link DWL-650+
although the boot logs wagged a finger about how I ought to use a
'proper' supported card. It was fine for 128-bit WEP and MAC address
filtering; WPA was not an issue at that time.