list of wireless device supported
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Mon Sep 3 14:50:33 UTC 2007
Jacques B. wrote:
>> Thanks Karl. I'll have to check that out. In my case it's my desktop
>> and the wireless device is a USB device, so lspci wouldn't work for my
>> scenario (I already know what it is so that's not problem, plus I
>> could get it out of dmesg I suspect and with lsusb certainly). I did
>> find that nsdiwrapper (haven't used it yet) is probably what I need.
>> I've also read about using a Windows driver and wine. If I have to
>> tackle this issue because it's not supported by F7 then I'll certainly
>> look at your notes. Right now I'm trying to find out what is
>> supported out of the box. If it's supported out of the box then I'll
>> undertake my upgrade sooner rather than later. If it's not and I can
>> get a supported pci card pretty cheap I may go that route instead. Or
>> if it's not too time consuming I'll plug at getting my USB wireless
>> device working. But as mentioned earlier right now I don't have time
>> to fuss with it so would only upgrade in the very near future if
>> support is built in. Hence why I'm trying to find the list of
>> wireless devices supported out of the box with F7. After all they
>> were boasting rock solid wireless support with F7. But it failed when
>> I tried it on my work laptop where another distro had it out of the
>> box (was testing a few distros on it). So rock solid may have been a
>> goal but seems like they are not quite there yet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jacques B.
>>
>>
>
> Further to my last message, I checked out the site and it's an
> excellent resource! Thanks Karl! Unfortunately my device is listed
> as "grey" - unknown if Linux drivers exists. An excellent resource
> that I must bookmark. But I'm also still interested in my original
> question, the list of hardware (specifically wireless devices)
> supported out of the box by F7. It must be out there somewhere
> because they have to be tracking that for development purposes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacques
>
>
Well, since the kernel uploads on f7 the USB system is working very
well. It is just possible that you will need just to plug it in :-)
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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