PCMCIA wireless card that "works out of the box"?
Phil Rhoades
phil at pricom.com.au
Thu Mar 20 15:30:56 UTC 2008
Tom,
On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 11:15 -0400, Tom Freeman wrote:
> On 03/20/2008 10:49:05 AM, Phil Rhoades wrote:
> > People,
> >
> > I have been struggling with a Linksys wpc54g card and I have pretty
> > much
> > given up on it - I just want something that works reliably and "out
> > of
> > the box" with native Linux (Fedora 8) support - instead of using
> > NDISwrapper etc. I am not trying to start a flame war, I just want
> > suggestions about well supported cards.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> I can't offer good advise here - for my pcmcia card I bought and tried
> until I got something that worked. Kind of an expensive method...
>
> As a tangent, however, can a business case be made for Red Hat to
> develop / market a proper open source wireless adapter line? I realize
> that the retail channel hasn't been Red Hat's strongest effort over the
> years, so I will not hold my breath.
That's a good idea though - it is sort of a special case because the
area is very weak for Linux (along with audio?).
Out of interest, which card did you end up using?
Thanks,
Phil.
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