Re: wifi under SuSE 8.2?

From: David Efflandt (efflandt_at_xnet.com)
Date: 07/09/04

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    Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:38:00 +0000 (UTC)

    On Thu, 08 Jul 2004, Dennis J. Tuchler <dennis.tuchler@earthlink.net> wrote:
    > On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:05:22 +0000, entwisi wrote:
    >
    >> On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:04:53 +0000, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
    >>
    >>> Is there an appreciable difference in wireless PCMCIA support between SuSE
    >>> 8.2 and SuSE 9.1? That is, would it be worthwhile, for the purpose of
    >>> adding wireless support, to upgrade my laptop to SuSE 9.1?
    >>>
    >>> Thanks
    >>>
    >>> dj tuchlere
    >>
    >> I guess it depends on what wifi adaptor/chipset you have. If it is now
    >> supported in 9.1 then yes upgrade but if it isn't then don't bother.
    >
    > I was really asking whether most chipsets supported under 9.1 were also
    > supported under 8.2.

    One would assume that if given hardware was supported in 8.2, it would be
    supported in 9.1. But you cannot necessarily assume that something
    supported in a newer version was supported in an older version, especially
    for recent hardware. Although, sometimes newer modules do break things
    for older hardware, or may not support it if it has been obsolete for some
    time. For example I had a 10/100 nic that worked fine with older tulip
    module, but was troublesome with newer tulip modules. And X v4 no longer
    had accelerated video support for S3 Trio64 that was in X v3 (although,
    it would work unaccelerated with standard SVGA server).

    So if you want a specific answer, list specific hardware. 

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