On 02/21/2011 08:21 AM, Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:47:19 -0600 Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:On 02/16/2011 04:51 PM, Celejar wrote:On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:13:17 -0500 shawn wilson<ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote: ...whatever you get as long as the hardware isn't too strange. strange might be a gsm modem, fingerprint reader, dual mode graphics, no name 802.11 card - stuff like that.Not sure what you mean by a 'no name 802.11 card' - they all use the same handful of chipsets, some of which have better linux support, and some worse. Are 'no name' cards more likely to use one of the less supported chipsets than brand name ones?Yes. And use dodgy materials and shoddy engineering.The latter is indicated by common sense, but I'm not convinced of the former. Your basis?
The same as why "they" use shoddy engineering: shave a few pennies here, a few pennies there, and you've got yourself a really cheap card.
Might work great, might not. -- "The normal condition of mankind is tyranny and misery." Milton Friedman