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quinne

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PCI Wireless Card -- Need suggestions

« on: May 03, 2010, 12:05:13 PM »

Hi all -- I installed PCLOS 2009 on a friend's pc several month's ago. He now needs a wireless card (PCI), and I'm wondering if I should recommend one in particular...? I know when I tried to get PCLOS on my daughter's PC, we had issues with her wireless (even w/ NDIS wrapper, it wouldn't work.)

I don't remember what his motherboard is, but it's an AMD processor, if that makes any difference. Thanks, folks!


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AMD Athlon Dual Core Processor 5000+
ATI Radeon Video 2100 using X1950 or earlier driver
2 GB RAM
SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [IDE Mode]
SB700/SB800 IDE Controller
SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) Soundcard
AT Translated Set 2 Keyboard
MaCally QBall Optical Trackball Mouse

bicol_willem

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Re: PCI Wireless Card -- Need suggestions

« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2010, 01:10:07 PM »

Edimax (Linux friendly)... Ralink chips. Works although I think to remember that the driver doesn't came with 2009-2 but was in the repo's.

They have on their site what many don't have:

Supports Windows 98SE/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Linux and MAC

Hence ... they deserve our patronage.

Sample


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quinne

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Re: PCI Wireless Card -- Need suggestions

« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2010, 02:04:52 PM »

Thanks, bicol_willem. I did some more reading on the Edimax and it looks adequate for what he needs. I'll have him get the EDIMAX EW-7128G from newegg.com. I may need to help him w/ the driver, but that's no biggy (I trust!). Thanks again.