PCMCIA card for laptop to run Linux

[Darkelve]

Hi,

 

We got a PC and two laptops in our wireless home network. But on the laptop of my father, Windows 2000 is eating drive space, going slow etc. On my brothers PC, viruses or worms have taken hold of the machine (changes homepage everytime explorer starts up). I get headaches trying to fix things only to see later on the same problems persist.

 

So I would like to advise/encourage my father and brother to use a live Linux CD to go on the internet, read their email and chat. For the existing PCMCIA card (intel pro/wireless 2011b), people are working on that it appears, but there's no downloadable driver (even beta) yet. Instead of waiting for that, I'd like to buy a 'Linux-compatible' PCMCIA card that I can just plugin into the laptops and get the LiveCD going. Somehow MandrakeMove&PCLinuxOS play weird on their machines and fail to boot, even with options. Knoppix and SuSe Live however, did work. Didn't try with Mepis yet.

 

So my question:

 

Which brand and card to buy best?

 

Also, is it possible to save the LiveCD's settings on a USB flash disk or on hard disk (fat32 partition)?

 

 

Thanks!

 

Darkelve

[ac_dispatcher]

Try checking the LinuxQuestions.org Hardware Compatibility List.

 

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php

 

 

Edit:

 

NetGear stuff looks promising

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php?cat=149

Edited April 17, 2004 by ac_dispatcher

[Darkelve]

Thanks ac_dispatcher, this looks good (NETGEAR's FA411):

 

http://www.netgear.com/products/details/FA411.php

 

http://www.tomshardware.com.tr/network/200...210/nic-20.html

 

 

Oh yeah, ac_dispatcher, one interesting thing to know is that on "Tom's hardware guide", the guy has always been looking down on Linux. But recently things have changed a lot, especially judging from this article:

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040329/index.html

 

Gnu/Linux can be beatiful, can it not? ;)

 

 

Darkelve