[Derry] What wireless kit works with Linux?

[rayH]

Hi Pat,

afaik RH9 is a bit old.  It is quite important to be kind of up to date to get wireless stuff working painlessly, esp. if you try  USB devices.  I use SuSE9.1 which seems to recognise the Atmel and Broadcom based kit.

The easiest method (and the only thing that worked for me with earlier kernels) is to use a WAP connected to the Linux box via Ethernet. Most of my kit is Linksys. 
Check out:  http://www.sveasoft.com/modules.php?name=SveasoftArticles
http://www.tritium.co.uk/Flatennaroot.htm
http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pliszka/hints/wireless.html
http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/news.html
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

My advice is for you to subscribe to the ScotLug mail list or IRC channel via http://www.scotlug.org.uk/ where there is a lot of wireless expertise, especially with notebooks. It is over a year since I have seen a technical posting to this list.



-- 
 ray
(actually in Glasgow)