Re: Built-In Wireless support
On Thursday August 17, 2006 10:14 am, Anthony Simonelli wrote:
> I tried the new Ubuntu 6.06 on my laptop and it was
> able to detect and install the Linksys Realtek 8180
> drivers for my wireless b card right off the bat.
> Despite a well polished Gnome Desktop, I still
> preferred Debian and decided to use Debian Etch since
> the release is only a few months away (I hope).
> Obviously, any proprietary drivers are not included
> with Debian, but I am curious as to how Ubuntu was
> able to do that? I use ndiswrapper to install the
> drivers I download from Realtek's website for my
> wireless card in Debian, but is there a way to create
> a custom kernel with support/modules for most of the
> wireless cards out there, even if it non-free? I'm
> pretty clueless when it comes to the Linux kernel side
> of GNU/Linux so please correct me if I don't know what
> I'm talking about.
It's possible that Ubuntu has better hardware detection. I installed Debian
Etch on a laptop and it did not detect some hardware, including the
"winmodem" and Ralink RT2500 wireless interface. Then I tried Xandros with
much the same result. Only Linspire and Freespire detected all the hardware
and I did not have to fuss with any kernel modules.
8)
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