Is there a wirless

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Mar 23 11:43:42 UTC 2015


At Mon, 23 Mar 2015 07:14:07 +0000 dave at thefletchers.net,         "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2015-03-23 at 00:25 -0600, Dave Fales wrote:
> > Sorry should have said a USB wireless card
> 
> It's the chip inside it that's important. I've had luck with Intel (I
> upgraded this net book to 5GHz WiFi with an Intel chipped mini PCI board
> from someone on ebay) and Atheros.
> 
> I have NOT had luck with Broadcom devices and personally would avoid
> them.

+1

Intel is *well supported* under Linux: *Intel* provides and maintains open 
source drivers for all of there NICs, wired and wireless.

> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 

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