Wireless Cards & Drivers

[Graeme Nichols]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Graeme Nichols wrote:
> 
>> I am one of the lucky laptop owners with a wireless network card that
>> the manufacturers supply a Linux driver for, Ralink Technology.
> 
> I don't think this is necessarily very lucky.
> In my experience (with an Orinoco USB WiFi dongle)
> the driver is almost certain to stop working 
> with later versions of the kernel.
> 
Hi Timothy,

My only experience with a wireless card in Linux is the Ralink 
Technology card. From experience they are very helpful.

I had upgraded my kernel from the original F9 kernel and the Linux 
driver for the wireless card I downloaded didn't compile. An email to 
their support and a new driver was made available within a day. Being 
new to Linux wireless I wasn't sure how to configure it for my AP. Again 
they were very helpful pointing out that I needed to use NetworkManager 
to configure instead of the usual system-config-network app.

They really support their wireless cards for Linux.

-- 
Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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