wireless cards & Linux

[Erik Bågfors]

Interesting since I've had three different card and all has worked
fine.  Only one was somewhat hard to get working.

First, Orinoco gold, worked out of the box on all distributions I've tested
Second cisco airo.  That's what I'm using to send this mail.  Works
out of the box once changing the firmware level to a supported version
(on all distribution I've tested)
Third, a D-link of some kind. Worked right of the box on ubuntu (only
distribution tested on) with the restricted modules.

When I bought the last one, I didn't even bother to see if linux would
support it. I just assumes it would.

/Erik


On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:22:57 +0000, david <nux at blueyonder.co.uk> 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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