a little help with linux

[Sam Varshavchik]

Charles E. Rick Taylor, IV writes:

> On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 21:51 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> 
>> The best advice for you is to just throw out whatever screwy wireless 
>> hardware you have that apparently requires you to compile and install some 
>> cockamamie drivers.  Chalk it off as a learning experience.  Go back to 
>> Google, and find a wireless card that's been natively supported by the 
>> modern Linux kernel for at least a year now, buy it, plug it in, and have 
>> everything Just Work™.
> 
>> There are plenty of wireless cards out there with native Linux support.
> 
> Most cards that are *supported* by Linux can't be plugged into a Fedora
> box and "just work".  You might not have to compile some of the drivers,
> but you probably still have to hunt and find firmware.

Hmmm, so what's all this stuff in 
/lib/modules/2.6.12-1.1376_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/net/wireless?


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