Is wireless support any better with FC5?

Craig McLean craig at fukka.co.uk
Wed Apr 19 16:32:43 UTC 2006


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Please don't top-post, it destroys readability...

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 4/19/06, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
>> Is wireless support any better with FC5?
> [snip by craig]
> For me FC5 has been an absolute nightmare for wifi.  Everything worked
> perfectly for me with a orinico supported pcmcia wifi card in FC4.
> Since upgrading, I can't get it to work at all.  The card is detected,
> yet it never can connect to anything on any network.

I've been on FC5 for a while on a Tosh Tecra M2. The on-board Intel
PRO2100b is working great, as is the Linksys WPC54GSv2 PCMCIA card
(using ndiswrapper). If anything, the PCMCIA support seems to be
light-years ahead of where is was last time I was unfortunate enough to
need it :-)

Craig.

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