Re: How can I verify hardware compatibility?
On Saturday 25 November 2006 8:07 pm, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
> I haven't found a PCI wireless card that "just works" yet.
> The best you'll do is find one whose Windoze driver works
> with the Linux NDIS wrapper.
I have two Netgear MA311 pci wireless-b cards running with native Linux
drivers. It's been a while since I installed them, so I don't recall if they
were autoconfigured or not. The kernel modules that they use are hermes,
orinoco, and orinoco-pci.
Supported cards are out there, but research prior to purchase is essential.
Search on "belkin F5D7000 linux" for example, and you will quickly find out
the state of support. A reasonably current HCL for wireless cards may be
found at:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php/cat/10
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Carl Brown
Whitefield, NH USA
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