Wireless+Ubuntu

[Rob Weir]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:21:19AM -0500, Eric Dunbar said
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:08:10 +0000, Benjamin Roe <ben_ubuntu at benroe.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm thinking of moving to a wireless network at home, but I'm a little
> > unsure of the support for 802.11b+g cards under ubuntu. I've been
> > googling, but it's hard to match up chipsets, cards and drivers when you
> > don't know much about the subject.
> > 
> > Is anyone out there running a wireless network with ubuntu and, if so,
> > what would your recommendations for network cards (both for a laptop and
> > desktop machine) be?
> 
> If you're a Mac user, Airport (standard/802.11b) works out of the box
> with the installer (I installed Ubuntu over wireless -- the installer
> detected the card and acquired an IP from my router/802.11b
> basestation's DHCP server).

Note the Airport Extreme does not work under Linux at all.

-rob

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