Sabrent Wireless 802.11n PCI Card gives you the flexibility to position your desktop PC or Mac where you want, without the cost or inconvenience of running network cables. Maximize data transfer speeds using the included dual band articulate dipole antennas. Simply install the PCI card into an available PCI slot, and connect to an available wireless network.
$ 21.55
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This card works great, but you need the correct driver!,
I bought this Sabrent 54Mbps wireless-g PCI card from BuyPCdirect through Amazon.com. I chose it because it was inexpensive and seemed to have everything that I was looking for in a wireless card. When I received the card, I installed it in the PC and installed the software provided on the small CD which came in the box with the card onto my computer. My PC was running the Windows XP SP2 operating system. However, the card installed ok, but then would lose the wireless signal every few minutes. The disconnecting and reconnecting to the network was slowly driving me crazy! I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the software provided, but the same thing happened. I was going to return the card and purchase a Linksys card instead, since my wireless access point was a Linksys brand as well. I had even packaged the card and contacted the seller about a refund, when I decided to search for more drivers online. I came across a driver for the Ralink WMP-RT2561ST chipset (which is the actual chipset on the Sabrent PCI card) at this website […]. I installed the card again and installed this new software onto my PC and the card worked like lightning. No more irritating dropouts, and it was getting a great signal from the wireless access point. I then used Windows Update to get the latest November 2008 driver and the card now works like a charm. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a cheap, reliable PCI wireless card, but don’t use the CD provided with the card.
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|Great Linux Wireless card, Sabrent PCi-802N,
Put in a Fedora12 Linux computer and was detected after login to Desktop.
Uses Ralink Chipset and Linux driver Rt2860sta .
And had full strength signal from a Linksys WRT54G router.
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|Works on Linux 2.6.27,
I purchased this wireless card because it was cheap and Amazon said that it uses a Broadcom 4318 chipset, which I know works on Linux (the b43 driver in a vanilla kernel, since 2.6.24). When I recieved the card, and I inspected it, I found out that it’s actually a different chipset (an RaLink RT2561). No worries, it still works on Linux, using the rt61pci driver.
From my lspci -v
00:09.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
Subsystem: RaLink Device 2561
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
Memory at cfff0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: rt61pci
Kernel modules: rt61pci
$ uname -a
Linux cat-in-the-hat 2.6.27-rc6-1ken #1 SMP Sun Sep 21 10:32:44 CDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
The upshot is that this card is a good deal and works in Linux.
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