Re: Wireless Cards & Drivers

[Timothy Murphy <tim maths tcd ie>]

Graeme Nichols wrote:

> I am one of the lucky laptop owners with a wireless network card that
> the manufacturers supply a Linux driver for, Ralink Technology.

I don't think this is necessarily very lucky.
In my experience (with an Orinoco USB WiFi dongle)
the driver is almost certain to stop working 
with later versions of the kernel.