PCI wireless NICs

[Randy Edwards]

   This is just a FWIW follow-up to a query I previously posted about wireless 
NICs.

   The model I wound up going with was the Foxconn WLL-3500 (you can find it 
at www.newegg.com or many other vendors).  This NIC is surprisingly small and 
it uses an external antenna with a magnetic base on about an 18 inch cable.

   The big advantage I saw in this 802.11g card was that it uses the RaLink 
RT2500 chipset, which has a GPL'ed Linux driver.  Debian has this driver 
packaged for Sid/Unstable (the driver source backports seamlessly to 
Sarge/Stable), and the driver docs are littered with Fedora references so I'm 
guessing it's readily available for that distro.  The setup was simple and 
the cards seem to perform well.

 Regards,
 .
 Randy

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