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  From: Bevan Coleman <bevan@forthe.net>
  To  : Ryan Verner <xfesty@computeraddictions.com.au>
  Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 09:21:24 +1030

Re: Buying a wireless pc card

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:54, Ryan Verner wrote:
> On 01/12/2003, at 7:31 PM, Bevan Coleman wrote:
> > Have a look at the minitar cards, very cheep and available from SA
> > dealers (Matts Systems and PC Range).
> 
> They're cheap for a reason; they're of a very low quality, and they 
> tend to overheat, locking up your machine.
> 
> I'd strongly recommend getting a Prism2 based card; excellent drivers, 
> excellent cards, excellent support.
> 
> > They have linux drivers avilible.
> 
> And they're awful; can we say daily kernel halt?
> 


You posted your problems on the minitar forum? The guys on there seem to
be fairly helpful and prompt from my experience.

The Prism2 chip-sets are good though, the drivers allow you to drop the
card into AP mode as well as the more common infrastructure and ad-hoc
mode.

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