On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 08:02 +1000, contact51 wrote: > I went and bought a PCMCIA card for my laptop hoping to be able to use > it. > Well there are quite a few wireless cards that work well with Linux. Some require additional packages, while some work natively. If you want something that "just works", I've found that Orinoco chipset-based cards are detected automatically (in my experience, anyway). I have an older NetGear MA401 PCMCIA card (802.11b only) that worked with FC3 without needing to install additional software. Then there are the Centrino notebooks with built-in wireless networking, which require the firmware to be installed and a little bit of configuration before the wireless networking works. My newer Asus Centrino-based laptop requires me to install the ipw2200 firmware and related drivers (which I get from Atrpms) initially, when I first installed FC5. But after that, with the current kernel, I don't need to do any further installation or configuration. Then there are Atheros chipset-based wireless cards of which I have one: another NetGear card, but PCI (for my desktop). You will need to install MadWifi and do a bit of configuration with the network scripts. I have had success with the madwifi rpms at Atrpms, and though each kernel upgrade requires me to install the corresponding RPMs for MadWifi, it is annoying at the beginning, but not difficult. I have no experience with Broadcom-based wireless cards, so I cannot comment. But some other people have tried it, and if you search the list archives, you can probably find a suitable solution. -- Pascal Chong email: chongym@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://cymulacrum.net pgp: http://cymulacrum.net/pgp/cymulacrum.asc "La science ne connaît pas de frontière parce que la connaissance appartient à l’humanité. et que c’est la flamme qui illumine le monde." -- Louis Pasteur
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