[nblug][NBLUG/talk] Wireless PC cards

[Matt Kirk]

I've had a great experience with Suse 9 and wireless cards.  I purchase an
IBM ThinkPad R40 about 8 months ago and bought their a/b/g card mini-pci
card aftermarket.  I installed it and the card was detected immediately by
Yast.  It loaded the MadWifi drivers and just worked.  I was impressed as I
didn't expect this from any Linux distro.  I have since tried wavelan and
Cisco PCMCIA cards with similar results.  I'm very happy with Suse after
years of running redhat.

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Matt Kirk - mkirk at sonic.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: A'fish'ionado [mailto:afishionado1 at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:49 PM
> To: talk at nblug.org
> Subject: [nblug][NBLUG/talk] Wireless PC cards
> 
> 
> This page seems to give a pretty optimistic view of
> wireless PCMCIA cards under SuSE:
> 
> http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html
> 
> "Most wireless LAN PCI and PCMCIA cards are supported
> by SuSE Linux."
> 
> Hmm. That didn't seem to be what I was hearing around
> here. Then again, how many of you are running wireless
> cards under SuSE?
> 
> I don't suppose that the rest of you just happen to be
> using distros that don't have the hardware support
> SuSE does...?
> 
> William
> (Who has found it very easy to get conflicting advice
> on the 'net.)
> 
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