wireless cards & Linux

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david Wrote: 
> Greetings
> 
> I'm working on a project to roll Linux out across the
> NGO/Charity/Voluntary sector and I have 2 offices waiting to be set up
> with wireless. They are using Mandrake 10 at the moment.
> After having gone through US Robotics cards and D-Link DWL-122 with
> absolutely NO luck at all, I'm starting to wonder...
> So,
> does anyone know if there's currently such a thing as a "works out of
> the box" wireless card (PCI or USB) for Linux? 
> This would primarily be for Mandrake boxes - however, if there's a
> better solution via Ubuntu - I'd be willing to consider it, but the
> solution must be utterly reliable and must also involve no beta OS's.
> (Mdk 10.2 Beta 2 sees and correctly identifies the d-link cards but
> doesn't seem able to use them - "no wireless extensions".)
> 
> many thanks
> 
> David
> 
> 
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Basicly, all cards with a prism 54 chipset are supported by the
kernel.
My SMC 54Mbit card was detected by Ubuntu at install time, so I'm
happy.

For other cards, you may require ndiswrapper to load the Windows
drivers.


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