Simple Approach to Linux Wireless
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Wireless connectivity on any Linux distribution that is not pre-bundled with existing hardware is a bit of a crapshoot. And yet I would be the first to point out that despite much of the nonsense about it being necessary to either compile a driver from source or worse, falling back into a Windows mindset so as to rely on Windows wireless drivers via NDISWrapper is never the only option.
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Assuming most of you are using distributions like Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS and Mandriva, I would suggest you try out your existing wireless card before getting too far ahead of yourself. This is especially true with many older PCMCIA cards. You might just find them working out of the box. It really depends on the chipset used and whether there are modules preloaded for that card on your distro. Full Story |
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