Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Mitch" == Nifty Fedora Mitch <niftyfedora at niftyegg.com> writes:

    Mitch> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> 
> I want to connect an AMD64 machine (currently running 32-bit Fedora
    >> Core 6, although I might upgrade to Fedora 9 64-bit or 32-bit)
    >> to a wireless LAN. Can I just buy any cheap wireless LAN card,
    >> or are there gotchas to be aware of?

    Mitch> Wireless is a tangle.

    Mitch> Is your machine a laptop?  What wireless bands,

No, it isn't.

    Mitch> frequencies, types etc are important.  You are in the UK so
    Mitch> my US centric history may miss the mark so here are some
    Mitch> general thoughts.

    Mitch> Have you done a net search and found:

    Mitch>   http://fedoramobile.org/wireless/

No. I'll take a look. Thanks.

    Mitch> Wireless is the primary reason I have a 32 bit version of
    Mitch> fedora on this laptop and not a 64 bit version....

I think I'll stick to 32-bit on this machine - it has less than 1GB
RAM anyway, and performance is not important.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire