Supported Wireless cards
Matt Zimmerman
mdz at canonical.com
Tue Sep 21 21:42:04 UTC 2004
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 01:08:06PM +0800, John wrote:
> Sadly,it's rarely that clear. Vendors often change the chipset without
> changing the card's model number or description.
>
> A while ago I ordered ans amc2802w, which works. Version 2 which I
> received does not.
>
> What I eventually did was download the Windows drivers for the Netcomm
> NP5420. I found the prism54 (ISL3890) firmware in the package, so I
> bought one. Then another.
There are the beginnings of a list here:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport
Which maps models to chipsets and records whether they are supported. It
would be great if more folks recorded their experiences there.
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- mdz
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