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Tomas Larsson wrote:
>>> Been struggling to get a rt61 card to work in FC4. So-far with no
>>> success, not with the various rt61 drivers, nor ndiswrapper. But
>>> the rt61 chipset is reported to work in debian, why not in Fedora?
>>
>> It may be that the module worked in an older Fedora kernel, but as
>> Fedora keeps moving to keep up with the upstream kernel, sometimes
>> things outside the kernel break. If Debian ran the same version
>> kernel, it'd likely have the same problem.
>>
>> (Not just Debian either, the same applies to just about any
>> distro).
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> Ok, question is the, should I drop FC and go for another distro
> (said to be working) or should I get another card with hopefully
> another chipset and start all over again?
That's a fairly subjective question. Is wireless the only thing you
are about? Have you tried some other distros to see if they have
other things that don't work but which work in Fedora? I doubt any
distribution is perfect for anyone, except a distribution you build
for yourself.
I have a system I built for a friend which includes a Linksys WMP54G
card (using an RaLink RT2500 chipset). This isn't supported by the
stock Fedora kernels, nor by the vanilla kernel, but it works out of
the box using Ubuntu. I could have just gone with Ubuntu on the
system but then I'd have had to deal with other things that either
didn't work or worked differently than how I was used to. So my
choice was to stick with Fedora on this system but to build the rt2500
driver (I setup a system init script to rebuild the driver on each
reboot if it isn't available, so on any reboot with a new kernel it
will hopefully get built and installed automatically at the cost of
about 30 seconds added to the bootup of a new kernel).
The advantage is that I have a system which I know very well but which
also supports the one piece of hardware which is installed that Fedora
doesn't support out of the box. If I went with Ubuntu, I'd still be
learning about the subtle differences between it and Fedora and I'd
have to keep up on them anytime my friend had a question.
Your choice might be different. Only you can answer that effectively.
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