Affirmative WiFi Support?

From: james (fishbowl_at_conservatory.com)
Date: 04/25/05 

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 01:20:11 GMT

What WiFi devices are expressly guaranteed by the manufacturers
to work in Linux, and are actively supported?

I know about ipw2000 and ndiswrapper and the wlan projects, that's
not what I'm asking. I also know a long list of devices that work,
for certain definitions of "work", but what I'm looking for is the
list of vendors that actually, formally, expressly, supports Linux.

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