Please suggest a fedora core 4 compatible wireless card

[John Summerfied]

Matt Morgan wrote:
> On 11/25/05, Douglas Phillipson <dougp at intermind.net> wrote:
> 
>>What wireless cards work with FC4 out of the box?  I'd rather not have
>>to install any drivers.  Please use common names, not chipsets in
>>responses unless you provide both.

Common names are not that helpful because vendors often swich chipset 
(and so driver) without changing the model name. Probably, the revision 
changes so revision C might work, D not.

I got caught on that particular problem with an SMC card: the original 
used a prism54 chipset that works (with add-on firmware), the next 
revision didn't.

>>
>>Thank you, I really appreciate your help
> 
> 
> I've had good success with
> 
> Cisco Aironet 340 and 350
> SMC2632W V.2
> Intel Centrino, AKA Pro/Wireless 2100 and 2200
> 
> But there are lots of others, so wait on everyone else's responses ...
> 
> You should also check the list archive, since this issue comes up a
> lot. The easiest one to use is at
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=fedora-list&r=1&w=2

In Fedora, I believe the Centrino devices require firmware that's not 
part of the distro.

My laptop has an Atheros-based wireless card that does "just work" in 
Ubuntu and SuSE, but it looks like being a major hassle in FC5.

I have Wavelan and Orinoco 11b cards that do just work in fc3, but in 
fc5beta1test I can't use WEP.



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