On 11/22/06, Fred A. Miller wrote:

Ok......THANKS! 'Guess I'll see about getting one at Best Buy tomorrow, along with a new router that provies both eithernet and wireless.

If you have to buy one, i recommend getting an atheros based mini-pci card instead of the intel card. It has far better support outside the windows community. Also most of them have more power, and hence give you more range. -- Jeroen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Fred A. Miller wrote:

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 08:45, Jeroen wrote:

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On 11/22/06, Fred A. Miller wrote:

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Ok......THANKS! 'Guess I'll see about getting one at Best Buy tomorrow, along with a new router that provies both eithernet and wireless.

If you have to buy one, i recommend getting an atheros based mini-pci card instead of the intel card. It has far better support outside the windows community.

Also most of them have more power, and hence give you more range.

I could have used that, but ended up doing something entirely different just to get this project done!

Thanks!

Fred

How well do those Atheros or other cards work with KWiFiManager? The card that came with my ThinkPad doesn't. It's an Actiontec Prism 2.5 Wavelan. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

John Pierce wrote:

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If you have to buy one, i recommend getting an atheros based mini-pci card instead of the intel card. It has far better support outside the windows community.

Belkins, or any with the Ralink RT25xx series will work extremely well.

I have belkin plugged into my thinkpad and have never had a problem.

John

Does it work with KWiFiManager? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 22 November 2006 11:34, Hans du Plooy wrote:

and I decided to get an Intel card.  When I put it in, the notebook wouln't even post - just comes up with an error saying something to the effect of: "unsupported wireless device detected, please remove."  And that's as far as it goes.

How is that germane ? Freds notebook is sold by the manufacturer with a choice of wifi cards, one of which being the intel. It just so happens his shipped without that option. He wasn't picking a card at random. He did his homework. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen