Remeber Fry's has a no questions asked return policy, so you litraly try out a
few that they have on the shelf...  I have heard that if you get a sales guy
they will let you open them and try it out with you laptop before you
buy.  But since I have never been able to find ANY sales person in Fry's I can
only speculate on the truthfulness of this stament.

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Eric "Shubes" wrote:

> Joshua Bryan wrote:
> 
> > Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> IOW, the question is: what chipset does your wireless card contain?
> >>
> >> HTH
> > 
> > 
> > Right O... I have not bought the card yet so I can get whatever I need 
> > and that is nice... Does anyone know how linux works with usb wireless 
> > adaptors such as the linksys WUSB11 ? I have a linksys router and 
> > therefore would like to stick with the same vendor for all the wireless 
> > hardware. Thanks guys for all the incite... The other issue is hardware 
> > makers such as linksys will use different chip sets in the exact same 
> > card... How is one suppose to tell before hand what chip set it uses?
> 
> That's the problem - no way to tell for sure. Some people have tried 
> using the FCC ID with limited success.
> 
> There are a few tables out on the net that list this info, but they are 
> somewhat out of date.
> 
> I've put together a web page of linux related links at 
> http://wmachines.shubes.net/plugmarks.html
> Look under Hardware->Wireless. There are severals link that'll get you 
> started, such as the Wireless LAN Resources for Linux page.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > 
> > ~wd0mkr
> > ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Good luck, and let us know how you make out.
> 
> -- 
> -Eric 'shubes'
> "There is no such thing as the People;
>   it is a collectivist myth.
>   There are only individual citizens
>   with individual wills
>   and individual purposes."
> -William E. Simon (1927-2000),
>      Secretary of the Treasury (1974-1977)
>   "A Time For Truth" (1978), pg. 237
> 
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