Journal OctaneZ's Journal: Linux Wireless help - Half-Height Card Selection 2
I need to find a PCI wireless card that will work with linux (OpenSuSE 10, not my choice). Now normally this wouldn't be THAT hard, except it is a Dell Optiplex GX240, you know the slim black ones that probably sit on all of you secretary'sadministrative assistant's desks, thus I need a so called "half-height" card.
So anyone out there have suggestions, I am NOT looking to use NdisWrapper. Any suggestions?
Has anyone used mad-wifi recently? They list the "3Com® Wireless 11a/b/g PCI Adapter" as the only supported half-height card.
madwifi (Score:2)
madwifi has a binary blob that gets loaded into the kernel (yes, into the kernel; no it's not uploadable firmware); thought I'd mention in case you have a problem with that. I
Not sure if it helps, but (Score:2)
http://slashdot.org/~nizo/journal/159784 [slashdot.org]
The ZyXEL pci card has a full-height bracket, but it looks like it could easily fit in a half-height slot (sadly, it doesn't appear to come with an alternate half-height bracket for the back :-|) Though, if you had a blank half-height and a drill, it looks like it would be trivial to unscrew the full-height slot.
Maybe there is a pci->pcmcia adapter that would work?