Recommended Wireless PCMCIA cards for IBM laptop w/ Airport Extreme network

Does anyone know the best performing PCMCIA card for use on an Airport Extreme wireless network?
I have an IBM R40 laptop.

RHESKE, Welcome to the discussion area!
Does the WinXP laptop have wireless capability? If so, what have you tried and what were the results?

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Any wireless card should work, providing that it is "n" capable. Of course the vendors want you to buy their stuff.
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http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?A=details&kw=BEAFWT2&is=REG&Q=&O =productlist&sku=304014
pcmcia is an card slot. If you have a 12" PB you may not have one.
If you have a pcmcia slot, buy the card. Slide the card into your computer and start up. Put the camcorder on the card and your fw drive on the port built-in to your computer. Even if this does not solve the timecode issues, it will save you other headaches in the future.
Question. Does capturing to your internal drive solve the timecode issues you are having?
I disagree with the advice of capturing to your internal drive and transfering the project after the fact. There are a bunch of reasons why, and all of them are qualified, so I hesitate to go further until I know whether or not capturing to the internal drive is making your timecode headaches go away.
I suspect capturing to the internal drive will not help the timecode issues which will make the whole point moot. But hopefully I'm wrong :>
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ps
When you talk to representatives from Apple, you have to be conscious that if they are not specialists in the area you are focused on their advice may be based on general recommendations from an IT or home user perspective. There is a difference between talking to a sales person on the floor of the Apple Store and someone from the Genius Bar. And the person at the Genius Bar may have a tremendous background in network installations, but never have opened FCP. Or you might get lucky and get a FCP savvy genius, who would be a bit weak when talking about some other area.
This is not a knock, just a reality. It is difficult to be deeply conversant with even one area. It is not realistic for the generalists you usually deal with to know the best answers to very specific questions.
I'm working toward becoming a certified trainer with FCP and it is not easy or cheap to become an expert at this one application, never mind all the possible applications and hardware combinations for wildly different needs and budgets.

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I puchased a wireless PCMCIA card - doesn't say who produced it, but is says: "Marketing name: CB54G2", so I guess it is made by MSI.
I have dual boot laptop - WinXP and Linux Suse 9.1 Professional. I have no problem using this card under WinXp, but I am looking for a Linux driver for this card. Any idea where I find it?
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Hi,
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Resource:
Windows 8 compatibility mode
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Hi,
What is the model/product of your laptop ? Generally speaking: we can't upgrade video card for nearly all laptops.
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Getting Wireless PCMCIA card to work

Attempting to get a Linksys wpc54G wireless PCMCIA card to work on my 1.5Ghz G4 PB.
I verified that the card works, by plugging it into to a PC.. ( works fine)
Plugging the card into my pcmcia slot, on nothing. No lights.. nothing.
I get the PCMCIA icon on the menu bar, three options
unknown vendor <-grayed out
Network controller <-grayed out
Power card off.
I read where there might be some hack that I have to do to get PCMCIA support running, but no clues after that.
Any help is greatly appreciated...
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Hi,
When I got my PCMCIA wireless card (not Linksys) it came with an install CD. The G4 maybe wouldn't of known what it was or what to do with it on it's own, needed the install feature.
Works fine once installed. Did you get an install CD for it from Linksys? For the Mac OSX? If not, it might pay to check their web-site for one.

Wireless pcmcia card runs badly in Arch but fine in Wolvix (atheros)

I've got some differences between the way my wireless pcmcia card runs on Wolvix when compared to Arch and I'd appreciate any advice on getting it to run better.
Basically on Arch it sometimes cuts out or stalls for short periods when downloading, but mostly it just does not reach the same speeds as I get when running Wolvix on the very same machine (or windows for that matter). It's fine for browsing in firefox, but for any sizable download the difference really shows. Both installations use Wifi-Radar to connect to the internet and madwifi for the drivers.
Ath5k is disabled in Arch, and does not even try to start-up in Wolvix - so it's a non-issue. I no longer have the network module loading at start-up in Arch (I'd been going through the guides for ages going over my config files and then decided to stop using as many of them as possible - and instead just let wifi-radar connect for me using pretty much the same settings as Wolvix, so that as much as possible was the same as in the Wolvix install)
The main difference seems to be that madwifi and wifiradar are both about a year out of date in Wolvix, but are the latest ones in Arch. The output of iwconfig for both installs is shown below. I've highlighted a couple of differences I spotted.
On wolvix:-
root@wolvix ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"FinniX" Nickname:"FinniX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:ED:45:25
Bit Rate:24 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:AB46-DF38-CDEB-89CA-23FB-67DE-47 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=24/94 Signal level=-70 dBm Noise level=-94 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:215 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
and on Arch:-
[root@FinniX ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wifi0 no wireless extensions.
ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"FinniX" Nickname:"FinniX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: 00:0D:88:ED:45:25
Bit Rate:5 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:AB46-DF38-CDEB-89CA-23FB-67DE-47 Security mode:open
Power Management:off
Link Quality=20/70 Signal level=-74 dBm Noise level=-94 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:40 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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I'm unable to change the Sensitivity of the wireless card (says I cannot change it on this card when I try) and have no idea how to go about changing the max link quality from 70 to 94. Yet these are the only two unchanging values that are different between the wireless set-up of the two installations.
I think the next move is to replace my current version of madwifi on Arch with an older version that matches the one installed in Wolvix, so that both installations use the same drivers for the card to see if it helps. But I'd really appreciate any input on why the same card functions so much worse in Arch than it does in the slackware based Wolvix.

Thanks for the reply Zenlord I've used ndiswrapper before on another PC for a wireless USB dongle, but I never thought it'd be needed for this card since it's proven to work with madwifi in the past. But it might be worth a try anyway.
As for the card, it's a Kcorp KLG-520 pcmcia card. This is the sites spec page for it:-
http://www.kcorplifestyle.com/products/ … LG-520.htm
Under chipset they give these two results:-
RF: AR2112
BB/MAC: AR5212
and in Arch I get this:-
[root@FinniX ~]# lspci | grep Atheros
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212/AR5213 Multiprotocol MAC/baseband processor (rev 01)
I'll have a look to see if the other distro gives the same output later.
Edit:-
Wolvix output:-
root@wolvix ~ # lspci | grep Atheros
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
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Hi,
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I've tried the sonnet website but doesn't see any.
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