Re: Many wireless card doesn't support Linux?

From: Daniel Böhmer (boehmerdaniel_at_web.de)
Date: 09/28/05 

Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:47:20 +0200

Hello NG,
here I've got a wireless card with Realtek chipset. It is quite old but
I couldn't find a driver anywhere. With the help of a friend I was able
to install and get working ndiswrapper. I saw the card driver was
working (refering to the output of several tools like iwconfig) but I
was still not able to connect to my AP. I think this is caused by the AP
itself. Most of his feature don't work and I think WLAN is not realized
according to the RFCs and so on.

I got the impression that there is no group of wireless cards which do
definitely work under Linux. Do you know any chipset or something like
this which is supported by Linux native drivers? I would even buy a new
card with this one to get this WLAN working under Linux.

strutsng@gmail.com schrieb:
> I am using Linksys wireless card, but it seems only support in windows.
> Because
> the CD says only for windows. How about Linux? I have Red Hat Linux 9
> and
> want to connect to the internet via wireless.
>
> any advices? thanks!!
>

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