RH, a wireless network, Linksys and an IBM ThinkPad

[Travis Roy]

> Hello,
>
> I'm in the process of connecting my IBM ThinkPad 390X laptop running RH
> 7.2 to a Linksys wireless network. Is anyone aware of a brand of wireless
> PCMCIA that I can use and that is an "easy" install?
>
> I'm new to networking with Linux and would appreciate any assistance.
>

You should come to the Central NH LUG meeting tonight, it's all about
wireless. :)

Seriously, just about any will work, there's two major kinds there's the
Prism chipset (Linksys, D-Link, various others) and there's Orinoco
(Wavelan/Orinoco, few others). I would go with anything Prism2 based since
they're more widely supported. Cisco has their own thing too that's based
off of the Prism chipset. The D-Link cards can be modified to add an
external antenna jack too. (see http://www.signull.com/accessories.html
for more info on that)