Subject: Re: Your experience with PCMCIA NICs
To: Torsten Harenberg <harenberg@physik.uni-wuppertal.de>
From: Michael Wileman <jwileman@panix.com>
List: port-hpcsh
Date: 06/27/2005 16:36:13
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Torsten Harenberg wrote:
> Michael Wileman wrote:
>> Can anyone recommend a PCMCIA network card that is reliable in both WinCE
>> and NetBSD? I've heard the Realtek chip cards are to be avoided, but I'd
>> like to hear from people who have real experience with a particular card
>> they like.
>
> I use a NE2000 clone from D-Link which works like a charm in both OSes
> without any additional drivers. For wireless I can recommend a D-Link
> DCF-660W (CF form factor, but comes with a PCMCIA adapter), no problems in
> NetBSD. And it needs much less power than the cards I used before. For WinCE
> you need extra drivers, though.
Torsten, is that the DE-660 ethernet you have? I'm going to try to get
one off ebay. They aren't too expensive.
I already had an Orinoco Gold wireless card, and the kernel Nikos sent
me supported it already. Just launched dhclient, and I was good to go.
Mike