From: Adam Short (ajs_at_orinoco.homelinux.org)
Date: Thu Jul 22 2004 - 02:40:33 PDT
>Which leads me to the aforementioned request for information. I've
>read the FAQs, and followed the links, but I'm still pretty unsure of
>exactly *which* PCMCIA WiFi and Bluetooth cards work. The WiFi doesn't
>seem to have been updated in two years and I know from recent
>experience of trying to find an 802.11b card for an HP OmniBook 800CT
>that I installed Red Hat on that two years is a long time. These days,
>it difficult to find an 802.11b... they're all the faster 11g standard
>it seems.
>
>
Ebay is your friend. I bought a Lucent Wavelan Silver Turbo just a
couple of months ago and I can tell you from personal experience that it
works perfectly with the newton drivers. If you're going to search for
802.11b cards these days, I'd suggest ebay or some other second-hand
source is your best bet. I've never tried an 802.11g card with a newton,
but I do know the Lucent card works (it's the Orinoco Silver rebadged
for the UK, essentially). I use it with an emate, and I'm pretty sure
the emate itself is a bottleneck because I don't get anywhere near
11Mbps performance from it, but you should be ok with a 2100.
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