[ltp] INTEL PRO 2200BG 802.11 b/g wireless LAN mini-PCI card

[Elliot F]

Elliot F wrote:
> s p wrote:
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>> Thanks to all for your feedback. Incidentally, I'm presently leaning
>> toward Ubuntu as the distro that will be used. Again, thanks to
>> everyone, and all the best!
>>
>> Sam.
> 
> 
> An 802.11a/b/g intel wireless nic is arriving today to replace the 
> atheros card in my laptop.  It was only $40.52 shipped from newegg.com.  
> I had paid $95 for the 802.11a/b/b atheros unit.  I'll let you know how 
> it goes.
> 
> Primarily, I bought it so that I could use the netmanager applet (which 
> madwifi does not support at the moment.)
> 
> Link to item on newegg ("WM3B2915ABGNAX"):
> 
> http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=33-106-219&depa=0

It arrived, and I installed it.  I applied the fix to remove the wireless nic 
check, so I don't know if it's compatible or not.  I'll try reenabling the check 
and seeing if it works.

The card works well, and is much more responsive to changing channels and 
scanning than the atheros/madwifi was.  The 0.19 version I was using (that came 
with ubuntu) had some incompatiblity with the madwifi/prism54 linux APs I was 
using, so I have upgraded to 1.0.0.

When I get home I will see if the version update helps with compatibility with 
the madwifi/prism54 APs.  Basically, the connection would die after a certain 
amount of time when using the linux-based APs.  I had to switch back to using a 
wrt54g as an AP in the meantime.

Pretty happy with the card overall.

Elliot