[Prism54-users] new pci card that works?

[Zooko O'Whielacronx]

> From: "Zooko O'Whielacronx" <zooko at zooko.com>
> To: "Steve Hill" <steve at nexusuk.org>
> Cc: prism54-users at prism54.org, "Kerry Krumpelstaeder" <kk at highlab.com>,
>   "Richard Atterer" <richard at list04.atterer.net>,
>   "Sebastian Kuzminsky" <seb at kernel.org>
> Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] new pci card that works?
>
> I bought an XG-900 from zcomax.com.  They were fast and courteous and
> charged only USD 89.00 and threw in free shipping via UPS.
> (Unfortunately I had to pay import duties of around CAD 50.00 when it
> arrived in Canada.  I thought there was supposed to be Free Trade
> between USA and Canada?  Oh well.)
>
> I had no trouble installing it with Ubuntu, but I had very bad behavior
> from it for a long time, but those turned out to be IRQ conflicts.  (I
> thought IRQ conflicts were a thing of the past?  Oh well.)
>
> Having moved my XG-900 to a different PCI slot and confirmed that it
> has an IRQ all to itself, it is working fine, although I haven't tested
> it at range nor with high load.  It is doing 802.11g with a Linksys
> wrt54g router and next to an Apple Mac laptop with Airport Extreme.
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>