I am spinning up a desktop computer and would like to use a Netgear WG311 Wireless Network Adapter to link to the Internet. I checked the redhat.com and fedora web sites, and did a search of this lists' archives, but never saw anything on the Netgear WG311 adapter and Fedora. Does anyone have experience using this piece of hardware with Fedora Core 2 or 3? I would like to know before I spend the cash on the adapter.
Try to dig out somewhere what chipset the card is using. You'd have to know actual revision of the card (since same wireless card can use different chipsets in various revisions, and the chnage is not reflected in model name, only in the smallprint on the back of the card in revision field). Than check if the chipset is supprted natively by Linux. If it is not, than chances are that card will work using Windows device driver and wrapper kernel module (I think it's called ndiswrapper or something like that). If you are buying a new card, you might choose to save yourself some trouble and get a card with chipset that is supported by the Linux out-of-the-box (for exampel Prism GT based card).
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