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kingneb
2006-11-15, 04:23 PM CST
I am looking for a wireless 802.11g PCI card that the latest version of Fedora supports. What brands should I purchase?

Brian1
2006-11-15, 05:12 PM CST
Don't know of any specfic to work out of the box to say. List the wireless modules your current kernel has available.
ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless. Then if you can determine what cards use one of the modules then you should be set.

But for most installing ndiswrapper will work with 95% of them using the Windows inf file for the card. Search here for info on installing ndiswrapper. The basics require the kernel source to be installed which if using precompiled kernel rpms then you need to install the matching version of kernel-devel-***.rpm for kernel headers. Then build the ndiswrapper source. Also if using precompiled kernels you can get a precompiled ndiswrapper rpm from here. http://www.atrpms.net/ Note: if you upgrade the kernel you need to upgrade the ndiswrapper to match the new kernel.

Brian