On Sunday, 15 July 2001 at 21:26:18 +1000, Steven Hanley wrote:
> 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.

For the benefit of the non-Australian subscribers, Harvey Norman is an
Australian department store.

For the benefit of the Australian subscribers, AUUG
(http://www.auug.org.au/) is considering a bulk purchase (at cost) of
wireless cards for members. We haven't decided anything, but I'd be
interested in feedback from members of this list as to whether this
would be a useful thing to do.

Greg Lehey
Secretary, AUUG Inc.

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