Orinoco pcmcia card and adapter question

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I have an Orinoco gold card and want to get a pcmcia to pci adapter. I see
there are some generic ones as well as ones sold by proxm / lucent. Do I
have to get the later for it to work? Has anyone used the such with linux?

TIA

 

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All the adapter does is to connect to pci bus, should make no difference who
made it.
But you may not get a good reception as the computer case shields the PCMCIA
cards antenna.
You could be better off with a USB adapter on a length of cable which is
much easier to position
for best signal, often the higher up the better. Sometimes half an inch
makes all the difference.
Regards,
Martin