WiFi PCI cards?

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Jan 16 03:18:44 UTC 2006


John Summerfied wrote:
> Michael A. Peters wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 22:14 +0100, Patrick wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Did some googling but mostly found laptop related WiFi posts and info.
>>> Anyone know (where to find a list of) WiFi PCI cards for in a normal PC
>>> that are compatible out of the box with FC4 and Hostap (preferrably non
>>> ndiswrapper and linuxant)?
>>
>>
>> I use an AT&T Plug&Share which works well via madwifi
>> Unfortunately madwifi will not be included in Fedora until it works will
>> with an open HAL - and thus needs to be installed from rpm.livna.org -
>> each time you update the kernel.
>>
>> But it works very well for me.
>>
> If it's worth changing distro over (I decided it is), madwifi works 
> out of the box with SUSE and Ubuntu.
>
>

Not sure what you mean by "out of the box", but FC4 has no problems with 
madwifi, and it's easily obtained.

Greg




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