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January 24, 2006
Wireless access at home, part II
Slashdot.org ran an article about the State of WLAN Support on Linux. Somebody out there bought a USB adapter and couldn't get it to work with whatever distro and software was installed.
True, wifi support seems to have come late. Maybe people had to reverse engineer the drivers. Yet with PCI and PCMCIA cards and recent Ubuntu, I've had no problems at all. Matt was working with Fedora something or other and reported success as well. It's working right here on a laptop with some sort of built-in device. I don't know about USB adapters.
My point is this: If you're still using Windows because you're afraid your wireless adapter won't work under Linux, your argument may be outdated. You can probably get your work done with the GNU stack on Linux.
Posted by Mark at January 24, 2006 06:58 AM
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