[svlug] recommend a WiFi PCI card

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 10:11:37PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> > 
> > Unfortunately, when it comes to G hardware, the answer to this question is
> > very distro-dependent. I have three G cards, and each one works great
> > under some distro or other, and in some cases, not at all elsewhere.
> 
> Oh wow. :-( I had no idea it's such a mess.

It's mainly because some of the most common wireless chipsets are only
supported by very recent kernels.  For example, Broadcom 43xx support
wasn't integrated until 2.6.17.  Many distros don't ship a kernel that
new.

> > Which distro are you planning to use it with?
> 
> Fedora 6

In that case, any card that any Linus kernel supports will be supported
for you, because FC6 has a very current (2.6.18.1 + patches, with Dave
Jones planning a jump directly to 2.6.20 for updates) kernel.

> But I assume - if it works on one distro, with a bit of hacking it 
> should work on any other distro? (provided the distros are using not 
> very different kernels, etc.)

For distros that ship an older kernel, you might have to recompile the
kernel.  For FC6, you should be in reasonable shape.