wireless expectations FC3T2

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Mon Sep 20 16:01:05 UTC 2004


Peter wrote:
> Am Mo, den 20.09.2004 schrieb D. Stolte um 14:21:
> 
>>if it is
>>atheros based then you will need the madwifi driver from CVS because it
>>is still in development. some yum repositories already offer the madwifi
>>package so it should be a no brainer to get this card working. you will
>>not get any redhat support though.
> 
> 
> and expect it to be broken sometimes. I had a lot of difficulties with
> some kernel releases/kernel updates and some cvs state of madwifi, ACPI,
> Interrupt sharing, etc.
> 
> If you have a choice you should avoid atheros for now until the driver
> is in a better shape.

I guess there is always a choice.. if I want to eat the cost.  What 
card[s] have the best support?  Where I could just expect it to work 
like my older pcmcia (non-wireless netgear) cards do?





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