take a look at the howto http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ which tells you heaps about the various chipsets & drivers.
I have just installed a pci based aironet chipset cisco in my desktop, and used the drivers downloaded from the cisco site. It works fine I also have a Xircom pcmcia card which uses the same chipset and couldmn't get it going on debuin with airo.o. I therefore used the same cisco drivers and it now works fine. The cisco drivers are open source, but not On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:53:37 +1300 (NZDT) Chris Hellyar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi-ho, > > Trivia for the day.. > > I'm just looking at 802.11b for a fix to a problem here at work, and > wondering what breeds of 802.11 cards (laptop and desktop) anyone has played > with under Linux with some success... > > Or maybe which ones you didn't get to work? > > Cheers, me. > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
