In message <200105201410.f4KEAge11872@lager.beer.org>, Herb Peyerl writes:
>"dkwok" <dkwok@iware.com.au>  wrote:
> > I am planning to install Orinoco card in my NetBSD-1.5.1_BETA2 machine. =
> > Should I get the isa or pci adapter? I heard that it would be much =
> > easier to install with isa. However, I looks to me that pci adapter is =
> > much cheaper to buy than an equivalent isa card.
> > 
> > Any thought on this?
>
>I have no experience with the Lucent PCI adapter.  But I bought two
>of the Linksys cards that probe/attach as a 'wi0' and I also bought 
>one of their PCI adapters into which the card is intended to go.  I
>have a memory fragment of someone telling me the lucent adapter is 
>similar.
>
>The Linksys PCI card is _not_ a PCI<->PCMCIA adapter.  It is a 
>PCI network card when the pcmcia card is plugged in:
>
>unknown vendor 0x16ab product 0x1102 (miscellaneous network, revision 0x02) at
> p
>ci0 dev 15 function 0 not configured
>
>I ignored the warnings on the box when I bought it, it's claims that it
>supported _only_ their adapter. 
>
>I have several ISA<->PCMCIA bridges but the machine in question has only
>1 ISA slot and there's a PC Weasel in it.
>
>
Check the archives -- there was some discussion on this in Feburary and 
March.  The consensus seemed to be that the Lucent PCI and ISA 
adapters worked, the former because it was a cardbus bridge.

I have one on order...

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb