PCMCIA wireless cards....\'just works\'?

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, cjlesh wrote:

> Hey all:
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> I've been searching on google all day, and not finding the answer I'm looking for.
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> Is there a  list of wireless pcmcia cards that 'just work' in Fedora core 3?

as I said before. any proxim orinoco gold card (802.11b) will just work 
and has since like 1998 (when it was the lucent wavelan gold).

> No downloads, kernel recompiles, ndiswrappers, etc...I want to plug it into my laptop, and have it work.

That strikes me as a little lazy. To my mind the comparativly minor 
inconvenience of rebuilding the mad-wifi source rpm when you install a new 
kernel rpm is worth it to unlock the potential of an atheros a/b/g card.

> If you have a card that 'just works', please post the name, model 
> number, and revision in this thread. Maybe if there are enough responses 
> this could become a FAQ?

it is a faq.

you can look at some commentary on many cards in the seattle wirelesss 
hardware comparison.

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/HardwareComparison

> -cjl
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