Wireless (again)

[max]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
> 
>> | Where is _the_ HCL for Fedora-8?
>> | If you know then surely it would be better to give the URL
>> | rather than glibly telling people to "consult the HCL".
>> |
>> | As far as I can see, the HCL you are advising people to consult
>> | does not actually exist:
>> | "This page does not exist yet".
>> | The only reference I could find to "Fedora HCL"
>> | said it had not been updated since 2005,
>> | which would make it more or less useless, I imagine.
>> |
>>
>>
>> LinuxQuestions.org
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php
>>
>> Found by entering   Linux hardware compatibility list   in Google. First
>> hit on the page. It took about 10 seconds. 
> 
> 1) I entered "Fedora HCL" since that is what was referred to,
> and was told that "this page does not exist yet", as I said.
> 
> 2) The statement was that there existed a document called "the HCL".
> As far as I can see, the document you refer to, while interesting, 
> simply claims to be the LinuxQuestions HCL.
> 
> 3) The statement was that "the HCL" would give you the chipset
> of any wireless card.
> I checked a random set of 5 cards in the HCL you refer to,
> and none of them seemed to reference any chipset.
> 
> As far as I can see, there is not a document called "The Linux HCL".
> I too googled for "linux hcl" and found a number of different documents
> claiming this title.
> In any case, I stand by my original complaint
> that if people are referring to online documents
> they should go to the trouble of giving their URLs.
> 
> 
You check to see which chipset is on the card and then see if Linux 
supports it.

-Max