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After several years, I am not getting around to upgrading my wireless router - |
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from a Linksys WRT54G to a Cisco Linksys E4200. |
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While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for my D600 |
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laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported Broadcom 43xx card |
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that generally works, but is also a pain to keep working. |
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While it's easy to find a USB Wireless card, I'm not really interested in them - |
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the form factor is generally prone to breaking and my D600 laptop only has two |
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USB-ports (its main flaw), one of which I use for a USB mouse when its not in |
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the docking station - when it is, I can't use either as they are both in the |
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back and blocked by the docking station - so a USB wireless is kind of |
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problematic as I would then have to take it out to dock the laptop (undesirable |
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to say the least). |
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So that leaves me with using one of the open PCMCIA card slots. I have two wired |
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PCMCIA adapters, useful mostly for multi-network and diagnostics; so the slots |
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are open. |
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I'd like to keep the cost down - $50 USD or less; and am pretty open to |
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different brands. However, I've found the lookups - at least linuxwireless.org - |
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to be a little troublesome in identifying to actual cards, so I'm looking for |
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some good recommendations. |
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Thus far I've looked at: |
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Cisco-Linksys WPC600N |
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Cisco-Linksys WEC600N |
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Cisco-Linksys WPC300N |
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But I haven't been able to determine if they are supported under Linux. |
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Open to other suggestions too - so long as PCMCIA compatible. |
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Thanks, |
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Ben |