[Sussex] Installing wireless cards

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

Steve Dobson wrote:
>
> Personally I am not in favour of this ndiswrapper approach.  I think if you
> like and wish to prompt Linux you should actively support companies that
> are doing the right thing.  If a company only releases a Windows driver and
> not details of the hardware (so the kernel team can develop a driver for
> Linux/*BSD/...) then, as far as I am concerned, they really don't want my money!
>   
The cheaper USB/100baseT and USB/wireless adapters all tend to use the 
same chipsets and work well. Laptop wireless chipsets seem to change 
like color of clouds at sunset, and be as poorly defined in the system 
documentation.