Replacement Wireless Adapter for Notebook
Hello, all! I have a Compaq Evo N800w notebook on which the internal wireless (Compaq W200) has died and I'd like to replace it with a Cardbus (preferred) or USB adapter. The W200 was a 801.11b device, I'd like to be able to replace it with a device that handles 802.11g and hopefully that someone has had working with WPA2 and (fingers crossed) EAP-FAST / EAP-TLS. I'm running SuSE 10.1 on the laptop. Any suggestions? TIA maurie
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 13:53, Maurie Reed wrote:
Hello, all!
I have a Compaq Evo N800w notebook on which the internal wireless (Compaq W200) has died and I'd like to replace it with a Cardbus (preferred) or USB adapter. The W200 was a 801.11b device, I'd like to be able to replace it with a device that handles 802.11g and hopefully that someone has had working with WPA2 and (fingers crossed) EAP-FAST / EAP-TLS.
I'm running SuSE 10.1 on the laptop. Any suggestions?
Maurie: Not sure if this will answer your question, but I used a cheap Airlink card from Fry's (like, really cheap)... it only had Windows drivers so I used ndiswrapper and it works great with my Suse system. It runs 802.11g with encryption to keep out the war drivers, so it makes me happy. Fred
Stevens wrote:
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 13:53, Maurie Reed wrote:
Hello, all!
I have a Compaq Evo N800w notebook on which the internal wireless (Compaq W200) has died and I'd like to replace it with a Cardbus (preferred) or USB adapter. The W200 was a 801.11b device, I'd like to be able to replace it with a device that handles 802.11g and hopefully that someone has had working with WPA2 and (fingers crossed) EAP-FAST / EAP-TLS.
I'm running SuSE 10.1 on the laptop. Any suggestions?
Maurie:
Not sure if this will answer your question, but I used a cheap Airlink card from Fry's (like, really cheap)... it only had Windows drivers so I used ndiswrapper and it works great with my Suse system. It runs 802.11g with encryption to keep out the war drivers, so it makes me happy.
Fred
Thanks for the reply, Fred! The closest Frye's is a 3 1/2 hr drive, unfortunately. I did check out the web site, however. Is this the card you're talking about? *Airlink AWLC3026 Wireless-G 54Mbps PC-Card/PCMCIA Notebook Adapter* http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4625808?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG TIA! maurie
On Thursday 14 September 2006 10:23, Maurie Reed wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Fred!
The closest Frye's is a 3 1/2 hr drive, unfortunately. I did check out the web site, however. Is this the card you're talking about?
*Airlink AWLC3026 Wireless-G 54Mbps PC-Card/PCMCIA Notebook Adapter* http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4625808?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
I believe that is the PCMCIA version of the PCI cards I got. It took a bit of reading about ndiswrapper to get it working but it is working. I noticed an earlier post here about how easy it is to crack WEP, which is all that the older, cheap stuff from Airlink offers, but it seems to be good enough to keep out war drivers. I mean, if someone wants to crack into your system bad enough to sit back and spend a lot of time at it, then using heavier encryption probably won't save you, either. WEP does keep out the person (like me) who is away from the office and needs a quick internet connection. From "A Comedy of Terror" with Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone, as Price and Lorre are trying to break into Basil's house and can't find an unlocked door or window: "Is there no honor left in the world?" I have felt that way often while war driving. Fred
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