WiFi for a laptop
Sam Varshavchik
mrsam at courier-mta.com
Fri Jul 6 22:20:41 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen writes:
> I have been reading and learning and have decided as Timothy Murphy
> has to stop using the NetworkManager. It seems to add more confusion to
> an already confused subject.
>
> There are a lot of iwxxx applications that will help get the WiFi
> working IF you know what your doing. It's clear you need to know the
> name of the actual WiFi radio in your laptop.
Not really. I have no idea what's in the two laptops that I have, and they
work.
> I think Windows will tell
> me this. So next I will get this and then apply it to iwlist.
>
> If anyone has been down this path I could use some pointers.
The overwhelming majority of laptops have Intel Centrino chipsets which --
especially in Fedora 7 -- are generally trouble-free.
Now, if you're talking about a laptop with an AMD CPU, that's probably when
things begin to get dicey.
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