Which wireless card is best???

Lee Revell rlrevell at joe-job.com
Mon Feb 13 18:28:10 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 11:31 -0500, Matt Patterson wrote:
> I am looking to pick up a laptop which will preferably run just
> ubuntu. I absolutely must have wireless with WEP functional. The
> laptop I am leaning towards due to the price and previous experience
> is the Dell 630m. That has 3 different wireless card options and I was
> wondering if anyone has experience with them. I would prefer out of
> the box reliable wireless with WEP. 
>  
> Intel Pro 2200bg
> Intel Pro 2915abg
> Dell 1370
>  
> What have been your experiences? Any suggestions for comparable
> price/performance/weight laptops?

The 2200 is most like to just work OOTB, as it's handled by an in-kernel
driver.  But I don't know about performance/reliability.

Lee





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