wireless cards & Linux

[Luis Murillo]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 21:03 +0100, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> 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.

Can you tell me the model of the D-Link card you got? is it PCI?

I need to install a wireless card on a PC in order to connect it to a
802.11B network. I don't want to have to work a lot just getting the
card to work.

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Luis Murillo <lmurillo at gmx.net>