On 3/14/07, Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>
> I think we all wish that were the case but with many wireless vendors
> being unable/unwilling to support Linux you will find that the drivers
> are a mixed bag.
>
> There is current a standard for Wireless devices call the Wireless
> Extension (WEXT) and Network-Manager requires that to interface with
> the cards so it doesn't have to support all the various ways the cards
> expose themselves.
>
> Looking at the Zydas page it looks like it should support WEXT so I am
> not sure why it doesn't show up.
>
> Can you post the output of iwconfig and lshal -l?
>

Ok I recant what I said, the version in Edgy doesn't seem to support
WEXT.  The version in Feisty does however but there is a howto on the
Ubuntu Forums that gives instructions for installing the newer driver
on Edgy:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=288753
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