Fedora on an ASUS G23-B2 [It works!]

[Claude Jones]

Tim wrote:
> I have a different Asus laptop, a PRO31J F3JC, using an Intel WM3945ABG
> wireless card, and it's somewhat similar in that from time to time the
> wireless wouldn't work, othertimes it'd work fine.  Reboots were
> necessary to get it to work, at times.  And with no changes of settings
> in between.
>
> This smacks of not too brilliantly designed hardware, hardware that
> doesn't reset itself properly when turned on, and drivers that can't
> cause it to reset itself, either.
>
> I'd also noticed that it would just about always manage to cause my
> friend's modem/router to reset while Fedora was booting up,
> disconnecting him.  But I don't recall it doing that when I booted up in
> Ubuntu or Vista.  I can only imagine that happening if it were spewing
> out garbage.
>   
Don't know about your hardware theory. In Vista, the wireless NIC works 
perfectly, every time. I think wireless connectivity in Linux is still 
in its growth-pains stage. This machine is not having any adverse effect 
on any router I've connected to, under Linux or Windows. I've tried three.