Wireless in FC4

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 06:58 -0500, Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
>      Just out of curiosity, will there be greater support for more
> wireless PCMCIA cards in FC4?  

Well...  What's in the upstream kernel will be what's in Fedora Core 4
since the Fedora kernel is supposed to track the upstream kernel fairly
closely.

The current state of the kernel drivers for wireless cards is:

Prism54 (ex Netgear WG511 v1 & v2)
Cisco Aironet (ex 350, 340, and MiniPCI cards)
Arlan
Atmel 76c50x (ex Belkin F5D6020v2)
Orinoco/Hermes (ex Apple Airport, WaveLAN, ORiNOCO)
Netwave
Ray
Wavelan (older, obsoleted by Hermes/Orinoco)
HostAP (in netdev branch I think, but not kernel yet)

Non-upstream drivers that appear quite a bit are:
Intel Pro Wireless 2100 and 2200
Atheros a/b/g & SuperG (madwifi, ex Netgear WG511T)

The best way to get more wireless drivers in the kernel (and therefore
into Fedora) is to push the driver maintainers to work on getting the
drivers into the kernel.

What will change is the ability and ease of configuring and using what
cards you can run, as long as they support Wireless Extensions (which
all upstream kernel drivers must).  See NetworkManager
(http://people.redhat.com/dcbw/NetworkManager)

Dan