Hardware compatability - Wireless

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 20:00 3/16/2004, you wrote:
>While I could simply go out and buy a card with a kernel supported chipset
>and do a manual install I'm trying to find out if I can make life any
>easier for myself by ensuring that I get something that the installer
>supports..

I used the Lucent Orinoco Gold and Silver cards since Red Hat Linux 8.0 
with great success. They were recognized and installed transparently by RHL.

More recently, I have an IBM Thinkpad T23 with a built-in 802.11b card 
based on the Intersil Prism chipset. That was recognized and installed by 
Fedora Core 1 (I didn't test it with earlier releases).

For someone else, I found that some other cards (forget exactly which) were 
well-supported by the linux-wlan-ng project (which kindly supplies RPM 
packages) so some of the not-natively-supported cards will also work well. 
And of course, the "ndiswrapper" project at SourceForge will let you use 
other cards via their Windows drivers (which spanks of black magic to me, 
but amazingly works).

Cheers,


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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