List of laptop (pcmcia) wirelss network cards
Travis Fraser
travis at snowpatch.net
Tue Aug 24 19:21:42 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 15:15, TroyGeek wrote:
> There's always a debate as to whether to buy or build (get it working on
> your own) when it comes to software. As i've already spent over 10 hours
> just trying to get a wireless card to work with no avail, there comes a
> time when you have to decide whether you want to spend many more hours
> trying to get this to work or to buy. Not everyone has ample time to sit
> and try to get device drivers working, but yes I always try to search
> the web and mailing lists when I have trouble. However, when all the
> options found on the Internet for getting this to work are exhaughted,
> paying a little money to fix the problem and saving potentially hours of
> more work which I don't have seems like a viable option. Giving up on
> using Linux because I haven't been able to get a wireless card working
> yet wasn't the route I wanted to go in.
>
> thank you though.
>
> ~ T r o y ~
>
>
> gkn wrote:
>
> >Then you are using the wrong OS and I strongly sugest you become a WINDOWS
> >user!
> >That way you wont have to learn the OS at all as mr Microsoft and his bunch
> >will do it for you!
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> >On Behalf Of TroyGeek
> >Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 11:46 AM
> >To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> >Subject: List of laptop (pcmcia) wirelss network cards
> >
> >
> >Does anyone have a list of pcmcia wireless networking cards (for my
> >laptop) that work with fedora (currently running core 2) out of the box?
> >I have three cards all of which I couldn't get working or the drivers
> >don't work with the 2.6 kernel. I'd rather go to Best Buy, CompUSA, or
> >some other store and buy a fairly inexpensive card and not have to tweak
> >files, compile drivers, etc.
> >
How about a vintage (not proxim) orinoco (gold/silver) off of ebay? I
have two 802.11b gold cards that work out of the box.
Travis Fraser
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