> On Tuesday March 2, 2004 "Gerry Doris" <gdoris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In my area there only seem to be two main wireless vendor products for >> sale. The first is D-Link and the second is LinkSys. I personally have >> used and like D-Link and I also noticed that their new wireless hardware >> is operating at 108MB/sec. >> >> I don't believe that the current crop of D-Link hardware is supported >> under Fedora??? Are there any plans to support it with Fedora 2 or the >> 2.6 kernel? > > Gerry, > > A better question is "When will D-Link support Fedora 2 or the 2.6 > kernel?" > > Lately D-Link has been using some components whose OEMs forbid them from > making any programming information public. An example of this is their > DWL-A650 802.11a card. For more than a year the D-Link web site advised us > Linux folks to "be patient". When I ran out of patience and wrote to > D-Link about this, I received a terse reply saying "We don't support > Linux." Duh! > > If the manufacturer of a wireless card won't publish its technical specs, > there's very little anybody can do to create a Linux driver for Fedora, or > any other distribution for that matter. > > My personal rule of thumb: D-Link is D-Worst. I suggest you try Linksys. > > --Doc Savage > Fairview Heights, IL Thanks for your reply. I was afraid this was going to be the answer. I called and talked to one of the tech reps and was told simply that "we don't support linux". He didn't know why. Actually, he was better than the last time I tried to find out about linux support. I knew I was in trouble when I was asked "What is linux". Gerry
