Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?
>>>> "Mitch" == Nifty Fedora Mitch
<niftyfedora(a)niftyegg.com> writes:
Mitch> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 06:23:10AM +0100, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>
I want to connect an AMD64 machine (currently running 32-bit Fedora
> Core 6, although I might upgrade to Fedora 9 64-bit or 32-bit)
> to a wireless LAN. Can I just buy any cheap wireless LAN card,
> or are there gotchas to be aware of?
Mitch> Wireless is a tangle.
Mitch> Is your machine a laptop? What wireless bands,
No, it isn't.
Mitch> frequencies, types etc are important. You are in the UK so
Mitch> my US centric history may miss the mark so here are some
Mitch> general thoughts.
Mitch> Have you done a net search and found:
Mitch> http://fedoramobile.org/wireless/
No. I'll take a look. Thanks.
Mitch> Wireless is the primary reason I have a 32 bit version of
Mitch> fedora on this laptop and not a 64 bit version....
I think I'll stick to 32-bit on this machine - it has less than 1GB
RAM anyway, and performance is not important.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire