Re: melco wireless PCMCIA card

[Jerome Limozin <jerome_NOSPAM@example.com>]

"Marcus O.C. Metzler" wrote :
> 
> Forget the encryption it dosn't help anyway. Look for airsnort on
> freshmeat.net and you will see. If you still want a cheap card with
> encryption get one with prismII chipset. Then you can use airsnort
> yourself and even build your own access point with a linux box.
> 

I know WEP encryption is weak, and I treat my wireless network as such :
publicly accessible. So I'm not using WEP as my only security measure.
I was just hoping that 128b encryption would be more difficult to crack
than 40bits! It doesn't seem so...

BTW, Melco doesn't sell anymore the old model as far as I can see.
Regardless of using wep or not, will it work with linux? 
What wireless base station and cards TLUGers would recommend? I'm happy
with melco so far, but I just  want to look around...


thanks
jerome