a little help with linux
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Thu Sep 8 03:20:47 UTC 2005
Charles E. Rick Taylor, IV writes:
> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 21:51 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>
>> The best advice for you is to just throw out whatever screwy wireless
>> hardware you have that apparently requires you to compile and install some
>> cockamamie drivers. Chalk it off as a learning experience. Go back to
>> Google, and find a wireless card that's been natively supported by the
>> modern Linux kernel for at least a year now, buy it, plug it in, and have
>> everything Just Work™.
>
>> There are plenty of wireless cards out there with native Linux support.
>
> Most cards that are *supported* by Linux can't be plugged into a Fedora
> box and "just work". You might not have to compile some of the drivers,
> but you probably still have to hunt and find firmware.
Hmmm, so what's all this stuff in
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1376_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless?
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