Re: Your experience with PCMCIA NICs

[Michael Wileman <jwileman%panix.com@localhost>]

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