Linksys WMP11 with Fedora Core 2

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

James McKenzie wrote:
> At one time Ornicoco was the way to go.   I don't know about today.

'b' cards based on Orinoco chipset work fine.  I've tested two recently 
with 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 kernels (one was original Lucent Tech card, the 
other was from some company that doesn't seem to exist anymore, forgot 
the name).

> It is not Linksys that is to blame, but Realtek.  I found the drivers on 
> a different site.  I think that I will search for them again and see if 
> I can lsmod -f them.  Should be interesting.  Of course, this is after I 
> check out the 2.6.10 series for FC3.

I'm not blaming anybody.  If Linksys had two products, one with Linux 
driver, one without, buying a card from Linksys would still be an option.

As I see it, there's no point in buying a card that is not supported by 
Linux all the way if I intend to use it on Linux.  If I had a card from 
before, than yeah, I'd use those solutions that allow me to use Windows 
driver on Linux.  But I'm buying a new card for use in Linux box, so why 
not save myself some time and trouble and simply buy something that has 
a driver included in stock Linux kernel (as downloaded from kernel.org)?

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