[Cu-wireless] Quick NETGEAR MA301 802.11b Wireless PCI Adapter Question

[Peter Folk]

My impression (backed up by a small amount of experience) is that
these adapters are in fact general-purpose PCMCIA adaptors (tho some
may not support Cardbus, and many only have 1 slot).

Pete

>Before I had an actual wireless base station I used to use a linux box
>as my base station.  So I ran into this question, and instead of
>paying $50 on a PCI adaptor specific to one wireless card, I dropped
>$120 to get a general purpose dual-slot pcmcia reader for my linux
>box.  Then I could use any of my notebook's cards (ethernet, wireless,
>scsi, etc) in my desktop.  It turned out to be very handy.
>
>Just FYI.
>
>				-Clint