[Malvern] Desktop Wireless Connectivity

[Richard Forster]

Ho de ho

Look at the specifications for these little laptot netbook thingies. As 
these often came with linux you know the wireless chipset will work. 
Then look for the same chipset on a card/usb device.

As a starter, the Acer Aspire One comes with an Atheros AR5BXB63 (aka 
standard atheros) and wireless is known to work out of the box on fresh 
installs of all the major flavours of penguin curry.

R


Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi-de-hi Campers
> 
> I is a tad confused with what is now supported and what is not well
> supported in Linux.
> 
> I'm looking to get me either a USB or PCI wireless card with 802.11.B and G
> on it, but can't remember what chipsets are supported easily and those which
> are, well, not.  I seem to recall that Intel stuff works out of the box but
> on Googling I'm not too sure about it now.  Oh, and it ideally needs to be
> Windblows as well as Linux on a Ubuntu / Edubuntu installation.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
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