> does anyone have any other suggestions about a card that will work with Fedora 8 right out of the box?
I can tell you what doesn't work. The b43 (Broadcom) driver works for 10 minutes or so, then disconnects for a few minutes, then connects again for another 10 minutes. You can get some work done, but it is *not* fun. It is not the WAP, because other laptops work fine. The rt73usb (ralink) driver connects for about 1 minute, then gets usb errors until you power cycle the USB key. No, it is not hardware - everyone else has the same problem. The zd1211rw (Zydas, e.g. HWU54G) driver used to work perfectly through kernel release 63. Suddenly, in kernel release 85, support has been complete removed! Is there any working wireless left in FC8? I can pick up a prism based device (Linksys) from Walmart to see if it might work.
But I am very discouraged.
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EL5 and Centos were working with Zydas wireless, but all the new laptops have VIA (horrible video drivers), Nvidia (decent but proprietary), or Intel X3100 video (documented, but still experimental and buggy in linux). So I was forced to install FC8 to get an X3100 driver that works at all (returned an Nvidia based laptop that had hardware problems causing freezeups). And now there is no working wireless support. So my wife will have to keep using her reliable but slow 600Mhz M700 at work.
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