Sabrent PCI-G802 Wireless LAN 802.11g PCI Network 54MPS Wi-Fi Card Adapter - VISTA Ready

by Sabrent

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 1.5 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000UOC3QK
• Item model number: PCI-G802
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,704 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 30, 2007

Product Description

Micropac Technologies IEEE 802.11g PCI Wireless LAN Adapter PCI-G802 Network Adapters - Wireless

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This card works great, but you need the correct driver!, August 28, 2009

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S. C. Greene "SCG" (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sabrent PCI-G802 Wireless LAN 802.11g PCI Network 54MPS Wi-Fi Card Adapter - VISTA Ready (Personal Computers)

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.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works on Linux 2.6.27, October 2, 2008

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Kenneth A. Bloom - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Sabrent PCI-G802 Wireless LAN 802.11g PCI Network 54MPS Wi-Fi Card Adapter - VISTA Ready (Personal Computers)

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.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeded my expectations, September 12, 2009

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Anjana12 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Sabrent PCI-G802 Wireless LAN 802.11g PCI Network 54MPS Wi-Fi Card Adapter - VISTA Ready (Personal Computers)

This wireless network adapter will not leave you unsatisfied! Like many of Sabrent's products, it was inexpensive and high quality for the price. I had to buy it because my USB wireless network adapter was failing me, so I needed a reliable replacement for online quizzes. It was a quick, easy install into my PCI slot, and I was up and running in no time. I must say, it's MUCH faster and doesn't drop the signal nearly as much as my USB wireless g adapter. I'm typing this up using the free internet from my apartment complex a floor and many walls above me!

Another thing: it's 100% functional with linux, and the drivers on the CD work with Windows 7.