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linux-wless.passys.nl — Will my wireless usb/card device will work under Linux?, sure there are a lot of resources but this simple and straight to the point site will make things a lot easier, hey you can contribute and make it even better.
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- patbuzz86, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4usefull
- dante2010, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Hahah I can digg it baby!
- plugitin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Awesome! I tried installing Fedora Core a few months ago, but I couldn't get my wireless card working (sorry I'm a Linux n00b). Now I know that my card works and I know where to get the drivers! w00t...Linux this weekend baby!
- MyNameIsLee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I finally made myself set up a wireless net connection a few months ago thanks to sites like these. It still was a bit of a pain configuring my netcard but in the end definitely worth it...does anyone have any have any horror stories about configuring Linux? I know you do...
- MyNameIsLee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for anyone that's interested I used the Netgear WG311T for my pci card and the Netgear WGT624 Super G router. I still had to configure the ath0 for Linux to be able to read the pci card but it worked out great for me and I only spent a little over a hundred bucks.
Whatever you do please don't by a linksys
- MyNameIsLee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1for anyone that's interested I used the Netgear WG311T for my pci card and the Netgear WGT624 Super G router. I still had to configure the ath0 for Linux to be able to read the pci card but it worked out great for me and I only spent a little over a hundred bucks.
- Bluezdood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This was sorely needed for a very long time. Da da da DIGG!
- ohnnyj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think it would be in the Linux distros best interest to make sure wireless is well integrated into their os if they really want Linux to take off, well that and user friendliness (to those not technically inclined).
There are a huge number of people who use wireless technologies to access the Internet in the home and on the road or at school. - Anchoret, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This is all but useless. First, it's largely incomplete and obsolete, and secondly it doesn't give the truly useful information, which is mainly about the chip the device uses. Some chain reseller's designation is meaningless because the name it is sold under frequently doesn't change when the device does, as it's just a repackaging of contract product.
Lastly, "Linux supported" doesn't actually have any meaning in itself -- some major wireless devices that have been "Linux supported" for two years have still never been fully integrated into any Linux distribution, and the ones that have rarely (NEVER, in my experience) give the full functionality of the device's native features (such as WPA2/AES), nor a frontend for the device.
Wireless support in Linux is still a total nosebleed compared to what one gets in five minutes with the Windows software and drivers that come with the devices. Poor wireless support is one of the biggest faults in Linux in 2006.- n8han, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I spent about an hour this week deciding which $30 PCI wireless adapter to get for my Ubuntu box. I came across this site and agree that it's pretty useless.
As for Windows, tho, I'm not too thrilled about using any old wifi software that comes in the box. (Their taskbar icons are usually hideous, for one thing.) I'd probably spend as much time looking for a card with support built-in to XP support as I did for Ubuntu.
- n8han, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I spent about an hour this week deciding which $30 PCI wireless adapter to get for my Ubuntu box. I came across this site and agree that it's pretty useless.
- NoUse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you want Linux support for Wireless cards, email the chipset makers and tell them to release the specs on their cards. Most of the wireless drivers that exist in Linux today are there thanks to reverse engineering.
If they could actually develop to a spec rather than spending their time reverse engineering all these cards, you'd probably see more updated drivers hit the market faster.- DigitalDud, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe someone could instead develop a standard driver interface instead so manufacturers can make closed source drivers without compiling into the kernel and GPLing their stuff?
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can not Digg this site/story, no way. My favorite distro of Linux (imsmarterthanu linux) has great support for all hardware ever created. Haven't you heard? Its easier to install than XP, and has a shorter learning curve once its up and running. Imsmartherthanu Linux is based on the whatsamattau distro, which has been forked due to irreconcilable differences between those who like Jolt Cola, and those who like Diet Coke with a caffine pill chaser.
Who woulda-thunk-it? - Madh2orat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This was my big turnoff to linux, because I couldnt find a wireless driver, finally, I emailed the company asking for the specs, and they sent them to me, I ended up writing my own driver for my U.S. Robotics maxg card, utilizing all the native features, now i'm just looking for an easy GUI frontend. (im too lazy to write more, took long enough as it was)
- kickinass, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The irony of seeing this, I was at a friends installing Mandriva and we couldn't get the wireless card to work. This is gonna help so much. :)
- ordminute, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wireless support in Linux is far from doom and gloom and needs to be kept in perspective. If you're keen to run a _whole new operating system_ on a portable that normally ships with Windows you need to be prepared to do a little research, and also be prepared to *not* be disappointed if everything doesn't work out-of-the-box. I did some research and found that all Intel Centrino laptops do have working wireless working out of the box with Ubuntu, Xandros, SuSE, Mepis and several others. Intel, in the interest of the capitalising on the rapidly growing Linux home-user market has a team of both in and out of house developers making drivers. So, I bought one and whacked on Ubuntu.
A few hours research and I'm a very happy puppy. This Asus M6N absolutely belts along and has great WIFI performance.
If you're not interested in installing an operating system (as few Windows and OSX users are) then go out and get yourself a box with Linux pre-installed from a place like http://system76.com/ or anyone of the numerous other Linux on laptop retailers.- jaydee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my centrino dell inspiron 9200 didnt work 'out of the box' with Fedora... spose it was my fault for not checking that the wireless wasn't supported.. but all those downloads, burning ISO's installing and configuring were wasted because I just coudn't get it to work.
Has really put me off trying again.. I just aint got the time to waste
- jaydee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my centrino dell inspiron 9200 didnt work 'out of the box' with Fedora... spose it was my fault for not checking that the wireless wasn't supported.. but all those downloads, burning ISO's installing and configuring were wasted because I just coudn't get it to work.
- LiterateWolf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Instead of wasting time with that site, why not contact wireless chipset makers and ask them to support Linux? Afterall, it would increase sales by increasing the number of OSs their cards can use.
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They have to hire driver writers, which costs money, and the result benefits only a small number of customers, and does not directly increase sales.
- rincebrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've known about this for awhile, it's infinitely useful.
Dugg - ridtheworldofu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Support for wireless in Linux also depend on the distribution. I have installed Red Hat, Fedora Core 3,4,5 on laptops and desktops and have had almost no luck getting the wireless to work. I would install SuSE and have no problems whatsoever. By the way I have installed SuSE 10.0 on a Sony Vaio PCG-K33 that has a AMBIT wireless card and it worked right from the get-go. (Modem even works which is amazing)
- grifon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've installed suse 10.1 and i'm having problems getting wireless to work, can you specify how you got yours to work?
- ceralor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems they're missing a few cards. The MSI Dual-Net card is basically a single PCI card that combines Bluetooth and 802.11b/g into a single card and antenna, still utilizing a USB port for the bluetooth, as, apparently, that's all that bluetooth will run on. Internal USB jumper cable is included. However, the product wasn't listed on their site! It's an extremely good wireless card, too, including an external antenna with a cable for it, so that you can position it easily.
- Technopundit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The time it takes to shuffle through arcane, inspecific, and often incorrect information like this is what will cause Linux never to be adopted by an appreciable number of home users. Most people are better served, and paid, working a job - even at minimum wage. If it were worthwhile for cardmakers to release Linux drivers, they would. But if they did, their tech support people would be overwhelmed for information regarding how to install those drivers, which is also extremely difficult in Linux (especially considering the Tower of Babble of distros involved).
- jaydee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1don't suppose anyone on here has managed to get a distro to work with a dell inspiron 9200 with a Dell Wireless 1350 WLAN Mini-PCI Card?
Can't stand the pain of failing yet again - peanutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Just what I need.
- 0zymandias, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Heh - yet another 'hey, anyone get.... working' post here.
Went from a netgear WG511T (Athereos chipset) to a WG511 (Prisim54) - the WG511 looks like it works with the Prisim54 driver - but on the website it mentions that it *should* work if you don't do WEP or WPA.
Well.... I *do* do WPA - anyone else with nice a success story to make my morning warm and fuzzy? - ahoier, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1good to know my linksys WUSB adapter works ^^
- anandsekar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For zd1211 based chipsets and airlinks usb cards resources are listed at http://www.anandsekar.com/2006/04/06/switching-to-linux/
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