Wireless drivers

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Mon Nov 22 22:47:30 UTC 2010


On 11/22/2010 04:51 PM, Mike Chambers wrote:
> Would someone be able to possibly tell me the most used wireless drivers
> in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box and not
> require much 3rd party support?  For example, intel, realtek (sp?),
> atheros, etc..are those open source drivers or at least supported fairly
> good?  Is there a website that can easily print/look at and see what
> works and what needs 3rd party support?

Intel ProWireless works for me in my laptop.  It had problems in the
beginning (FC6), but has worked well for me since F9.  I use the iwl3945
drivers for my chipset, but there are others for different Intel
chipsets.  Intel provides the OS drivers.

> Thanks ahead of time,
> 
> Mike Chambers

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