I am running Red Hat 9 and am contemplating getting a wireless network card for my laptop. I see everyone talks about the Ornico gold card, I would rather use a US Robotics. What cards are the easiest to set up and configure? Thank you for any help given...
Why do you prefer the US Robotics, out of curiosity?
The Orinoco is not necessarily the "best" chipset out there; however, it is one that many people have found to be well-supported and functional so it is frequently used. I have not seen a comparison of different adapters anywhere, so I simply chose the Orinoco based on the fact that I knew it was well-supported and had no major bugs and seemed to perform to everyone's satisfaction. The same reasons guided my purchase of the Linksys WAP-11 access point.
* Any card with good support should be equally easy to set up and configure; certainly the Orinoco cards are in that group, and certainly they are not the only ones.
* The built-in 802.11b wireless adapter in my IBM Thinkpad uses the Prism 2.5 chipset from Intersil, and that one is well-supported (in Red Hat 8) by the "wavelan-ng" project but not supported by Red Hat's internal tool (redhat-config-network). Hopefully I will find that RH9 supports it, but have not tried yet.
* I have no experience with other brands yet, so I can't help you there.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
