On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 22:01 -0800, Frank S. wrote: > Sorry to bother you I know i should ask this questions in a forum but > i have try with no result so: > I need to get a wireless wifi PC card for my laptop and a pci wifi > card for my desktop, I do NOT want to use Ndiswrap or anything similar > to that I would to get one that works out of the box, PLEASE could you > recommend me one > Thank you very much the Intel 2100/2200 cards have in-kernel drivers (supported by Intel) but you need to get some firmware (hopefully that can go into Fedora proper soon, the license terms are matching with the Fedora requirements afaiks) The Intel 3945 cards have an out of tree driver (supported by Intel) and firmware, and at this point need a binary userspace daemon (but that will go away in the next months). When that happens the driver can go into the kernel (together with devicescape or once devicescape gets merged) The Broadcom cards have an in-tree, reverse engineered driver but firmware is a bit of a mess; most work apparently (but it's unlikely that that will be shipped in fedora, it's more of a "take the windows driver and copy a part of it" than a "vendor allows us to") There is madwifi which is always going to be a nightmare (binary kernel component that is hard to ship by anyone due to it's strange gpl/non-gpl mix); result is continuous pain of outside, binary driver but little chance of that changing There's a whole bunch of others which are smaller in the market, most of them have GPL drivers but aren't merged yet, several are waiting for devicescape to get merged first. So it's not all that bad, as long as you're willing to check before, and look around for drivers a bit. The good news is that you hardly need ndiswrapper anymore, and even can avoid binary drivers since most cards have SOME open driver now. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
