[ltp] Which wifi adapter for a wifi upgradable X31?

[John Locke]

Sean O Sullivan wrote:

>>I am about to buy a Thinkpad X31. It is one of the wifi upgradable
>>models, so I have to specify a card, or buy one later. What is my best
>>bet?
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>Well, just from my own Experience, I bought the Intel 2200BG.
>Intel are doing drivers etc now via sourceforge ... sadly it doesn't seem
>to active.
>Haven't gotten round to getting it working via linux yet, drivers are iffy
>[my own experience]
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I just got a T41 with the IBM a/b/g adapter, and getting the Madwifi 
driver to work was not difficult at all. I wrote my own startup script 
that uses iwlist to search for my home network, and if it finds, it, 
automatically apply the WEP settings... if not, it connects to the 
strongest signal.

The Madwifi driver does not support WEP in restricted or preshared-key 
modes, though--I had to change my access point to "Open" key sharing. 
(not that much a concern, because I use OpenVPN to connect to my LAN 
whenever I'm on the wireless connection).

Cheers,
-- 
John Locke
"Open Source Solutions for Small Business Problems"
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