wireless expectations FC3T2

Peter pboy at barkhof.uni-bremen.de
Mon Sep 20 12:58:55 UTC 2004


Am Mo, den 20.09.2004 schrieb D. Stolte um 14:21:
> if it is
> atheros based then you will need the madwifi driver from CVS because it
> is still in development. some yum repositories already offer the madwifi
> package so it should be a no brainer to get this card working. you will
> not get any redhat support though.

and expect it to be broken sometimes. I had a lot of difficulties with
some kernel releases/kernel updates and some cvs state of madwifi, ACPI,
Interrupt sharing, etc.

If you have a choice you should avoid atheros for now until the driver
is in a better shape.



Peter








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