List of laptop (pcmcia) wirelss network cards

Aaron Schlaegel 777tahder at schlaegel.com
Wed Aug 25 04:48:44 UTC 2004


TroyGeek wrote:
> 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.

I avoided PCMCIA and USB and got an Ethernet to wifi bridge.

That way there are never any tainted drivers to get working, and my cpu
doesn't do any of the work. It "just works".

It does take more space, but the trade off is worth it to me.





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