[Wolves] Wireless network card under Linux

Kevanf1 kevanf1 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 22 13:12:58 GMT 2005


On 22/11/05, Joe Wrigley <joe at wrigley.me.uk> wrote:
> > http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/
>
> Not sure how up to date this is
> >
> > He points to
> >
> > http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
>
> You can see from the disclaimers on that page, that this is a tricky
> issue. You have to be careful and try to find out exactly which chipset
> is on a particular card. Card makers seem to have a habit of changing
> the chipset from one that works out of the box in Linux to one that
> doesn't, without changing the card model. I have been burned by this a
> couple of times.
>
> Sorry not to have anything constructive to say.
>
> Joe
>

It's still constructive, Joe, cheers.

I have found this useful site which may be of some use to us all.

http://www.openforeveryone.co.uk/perifs2.php?id=2

note the £20 WLAN card on there :-)
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