Re: Many wireless card doesn't support Linux?

From: Derek Broughton (news_at_pointerstop.ca)
Date: 09/28/05 

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:35:17 -0300

Uncle Chuck wrote:

> Well, as of this writing, 802.11g isn't supported by the mainstream
> release kernel.

Really? Oh, damn. Now I'm going to have to throttle back the speed on my
card.

My intel ipw2200g works just fine, and afaik, many other people are not
having any trouble.

What do you consider the "mainstream release kernel" - according to
kernel.org it's 2.6.13.2 which is considerably newer than my kernel. 

-- 
derek

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