list of wireless device supported

[Karl Larsen]

Jacques B. wrote:
>> Thanks Karl.  I'll have to check that out.  In my case it's my desktop
>> and the wireless device is a USB device, so lspci wouldn't work for my
>> scenario (I already know what it is so that's not problem, plus I
>> could get it out of dmesg I suspect and with lsusb certainly).  I did
>> find that nsdiwrapper (haven't used it yet) is probably what I need.
>> I've also read about using a Windows driver and wine.  If I have to
>> tackle this issue because it's not supported by F7 then I'll certainly
>> look at your notes.  Right now I'm trying to find out what is
>> supported out of the box.  If it's supported out of the box then I'll
>> undertake my upgrade sooner rather than later.  If it's not and I can
>> get a supported pci card pretty cheap I may go that route instead.  Or
>> if it's not too time consuming I'll plug at getting my USB wireless
>> device working.  But as mentioned earlier right now I don't have time
>> to fuss with it so would only upgrade in the very near future if
>> support is built in.  Hence why I'm trying to find the list of
>> wireless devices supported out of the box with F7.  After all they
>> were boasting rock solid wireless support with F7.  But it failed when
>> I tried it on my work laptop where another distro had it out of the
>> box (was testing a few distros on it).  So rock solid may have been a
>> goal but seems like they are not quite there yet.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jacques B.
>>
>>     
>
> Further to my last message, I checked out the site and it's an
> excellent resource!  Thanks Karl!  Unfortunately my device is listed
> as "grey" - unknown if Linux drivers exists.  An excellent resource
> that I must bookmark.  But I'm also still interested in my original
> question, the list of hardware (specifically wireless devices)
> supported out of the box by F7.  It must be out there somewhere
> because they have to be tracking that for development purposes.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacques
>
>   
    Well, since the kernel uploads on f7 the USB system is working very 
well. It is just possible that you will need just to plug it in :-)

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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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