[Prism54-users] what usb wlan card?

[SeB]

On an 'old' K6-2, you may face the problem of PCI compatibility
between a PCI 2.1 motherboard and a PCI 2.2 card.

danny at mailmij.org wrote:

> Hi all,
> I happen to own an ibook running linux an airport extreme basestation
> (says it does 802.11g). Now I also have an old k6-2, which I want to
> connect to this basestation, but I hoped to get around putting 50m of
> cable in the house. Since my PCI slots are rather full (and I doubt I get
> a good connection since it's quite far to the basestation) I hoped there
> would be any 802.11g capable usb lan connectors around that work with
> linux. This seems to be a problem however.
> 
> A prism based card seemed to be best supported but now I read on these
> softmac problems. And usb is not quite there yet it seems. However, I
> don't mind testing/patching the code a bit, as long as I can get it
> working within a few months. So, what kind of a card should I buy? Do the
> usb cards have the same softmac problems as the other cards?
> 
> regards,
> 
> danny
> 
> 
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