[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“If you try to find a Linux compatible wireless card, you might
find that a challenge. I shop around frequently and haven’t seen
any ‘Linux Compatible’ stickers on wireless card boxes. Recently, I
bought one on eBay and it had an entry in a Linux compatibility
list. It didn’t work. The manufacturer kept the model number but
changed the chipset.“In attempting to make it work, I discovered that in Ubuntu’s
new release 5.10, they’ve added a utility that makes it easy to get
off-the-shelf wireless cards to work. Now, that’s the way Linux
innovation can trump other OSes. Here’s a short article
demonstrating this ingenious tool…”
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