[NCLUG] laptop wireless, anyone got a USB 802.11b adapter?

[Rich Young]

If you're married to Fedora 8, I'd strongly advise you to try before
buying.  My laptop came with built-in Atheros wireless, and I have a
supposedly Linux-friendly USB wireless adaptor, and Fedora 8 never ran
either successfully.  

Both the external and built-in devices have "just worked" with other
distros I've tried - Ubuntu (Gutsy Gibbon & Hoary Heron) and Puppy, to
be precise.

Since wireless is such an important feature for a laptop, I ended up
abandoning Fedora and have switched to Ubuntu.  In the end, it was just
easier.

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I'm Rich Young, and I approved this message.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org 
> [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf Of hugh at mahon.cwx.net
> Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:03 PM
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] laptop wireless, anyone got a USB 
> 802.11b adapter?
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 8:00 PM, <hugh at mahon.cwx.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I got a new laptop.  Unfortunately it has a Broadcom 43xx 
> chip for the
> > > wireless and although I've followed the instructions I 
> find on the Web
> > > I can't get it to work.
> > >
> > 
> > Which model and what distro? I've been able to get the 4328 
> to work with
> > ubuntu and many of the earlier ones are supposed to 
> semi-auto install. If
> > there is a model newer than the 4328 then I don't know.
> 
> It is the 4312.  I'm on Fedora 8.  I've tried it with the 
> 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 and 2.6.25 kernels and gotten the same results with 
> both.
> 
> I installed Ubuntu (both 7.10 and 8.04) but the X server didn't work 
> (some driver issues) so I went back to Fedora 8.
> 
> > -- 
> > Jim (Ubuntu geek extraordinaire)
> > ----
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hugh
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