On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 17:06 -0800, Noah Roberts wrote:
> On 1/1/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com> wrote:
>
> > Check drivers/net/wireless/Kconfig in your kernel source for some
> > examples of devices that should Just Work.
>
> One major problem, and this is pretty universal for any hardware type,
> is that you don't know what you are getting until you plug it in and
> ask it what chipset it uses. It isn't on the box...rarely do you find
> it on a website.
Yes it's harder if you start from a selection of hardware and then ask
"OK what here works?". It's much easier to start with a Google search
for what wireless cards work OOTB and then shop accordingly.
Besides I don't agree that it's difficult to figure out given a device
whether it works with Linux, Google should be able to tell you this (as
long as you avoid bleeding edge just-came-out-last-week devices which is
a good idea anyway).
Lee
Received on Mon Jan 2 04:15:07 2006
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