On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 06:22:51PM +1000, David Murn wrote:
> Dunno if anyone else has seen it, but on the last page of the latest
> harvey norman catalog is some netgear wireless stuff at (as usual for
> harvey norman) exaggerated prices.
>
> The stuff they've got is Netgear 802.11b stuff. The PCMCIA card is
> $429.95, the PCI adaptor is $129.95 and the access point is (wait for
> it..) $929.95.
>
> The price on the cards doesnt look too bad, but the adaptor and base
> station look very much inflated. The PCMCIA->PCI adaptor card also claims
> to work with ONLY netgear pcmcia cards, but doesnt work with Linux anyway,
> being a PCI version.

hmm, the d-link gear I have I bought at harvey norman, and I assume they still
sell it, when I bought it back in january or so, it cost $369 for the DWL-650
pcmcia card alone, and $469 for the DWL-500 pci<->pcmcia bridge with a DWL-650
card, this stuff works in linux (sort of) with the wvlan_cs driver.

No idea about access points as I dont use one.

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