Easy instructions for wireless card installation?

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> As to supported cards, I (once again) recommend www.linuxant.com, especially
> if you want to use a higher speed card (802.11g). I use this with a D-LINK
> 802.11b PCI card and it works great. They have a list of the cards/chipsets
> they support.
>
> Every distro seems to me to be different in how this is set up. Maybe if you
> stick to the really standard (slower, usually 802.11b) cards, most modern
> distros will pick them up and install them just like any other PCI network
> card. But do check out linuxant.

Something that alot of people fail to recognize is that unless you're
using wifi on a LAN, odds are, you're never going to be able to use the
bandwidth available in 802.11a or g.  Most people's home internet
connections are still slower than what 802.11b provides as a theoretical
maximum.

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