On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 19:07 -0500, David Boles wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Timothy Murphy wrote: > | David Boles wrote: > | > |> The link I posted shows what hardware is known to work in Linux. > | > | Useful no doubt, but no answer to the question that was actually raised, > | which was how one could find the chipset in a WiFi device. > > > The actual chip set numbers? Well since they can change from run to run I > would think that the best way would be to look at the device with a > magnifying glass and write them down. > > > |> I did not post this link because there is *no* Fedora HCL. > | > | Which is precisely what I said. > | Well, there actually _is_ a Fedora HCL, > | but it has not been updated since 2005, again as I said. > > > And they told you why. Because it is redundant and a waste of their time. > > Look I don't own a laptop. I don't want to own a laptop. I don't like > laptops. I don't have a WiFi system. I don't want anything to do with > WiFi system. So what does that mean? If you do then *you* need to do a > little research instead of expecting others to do all of the work for you. > The best that I can tell you, from what I read here on this list, is that > Broadcomm sux with Linux unless you want to jump through hoops to get it > to work. Next worst seems to be anything sold by Dell. > > I'm done here. Good day. > > This is where you get to say the last word) ;-) Talking about overgeneralizations. My Dell Latitude D810 works well with wireless access. -- ======================================================================= I use not only all the brains I have, but all those I can borrow as well. -- Woodrow Wilson ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
