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<DIV>I don't really know of any that just works out of the box for any distribution, but that's just my experience and I've only been using Linux for a couple years. I'm wrong more than I'm right.</DIV>
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<DIV>I have a Dynex wireless PCI card from Best Buy, which was only like $35. It's an Atheros card, getting it to work on my FC5 box was a little sketchy but I was willing to make that trade-off. The documentation for the madwifi drivers is pretty good so I'm sure you could make it work. </DIV>
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<DIV>Not sure if that's worth anything or not, just my $.02.</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Steven White <swhite@ci.bloomington.mn.us> <BR><BR>> Greetings from a lurker. <BR>> <BR>> I have a desktop computer (built myself totally from parts on sale <BR>> after rebate) on the second floor of our house, running SUSE 10.1, and I <BR>> would like to get it to connect to the Qwest Actiontec DSL modem which <BR>> has wireless capability, so I don't have to run a cable down the stairs <BR>> if I want to use the internet. I know that the wireless function works <BR>> because my spouse uses her office laptop with wireless. I know that the <BR>> WIRED connection to the Linux desktop works because I actually have run <BR>> a cable down the stairs to the modem to test. <BR>> <BR>> I don't have enough money in my personal toy budget to keep buying <BR>> wireless PCI network cards and trying them un
til I find one that works. <BR>> I did that once (an off-brand wireless network card on sale after <BR>> rebate) and I could not make it work. I have looked at the hardware <BR>> compatibility list on the opensuse.org web site, and all the network <BR>> cards mentioned (there are not many) seem to have some "gotcha," like <BR>> needing a driver from somewhere, needing ndiswrapper, etc. I would like <BR>> to find something that just works. <BR>> <BR>> So to the question, does anyone know of a specific brand and model of <BR>> PCI wireless network card that I could put in my computer, that would <BR>> work "out of the box"? <BR>> <BR>> Thank you. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Steven White <BR>> City of Bloomington <BR>> 1800 W Old Shakopee Rd <BR>> Bloomington MN 55431-3096 <BR>> USA <BR>> 952-563-4882 (voice) <BR>> 952-563-4672 (fax) <BR>> steven.white@ci.bloomington.mn.us <BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________
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