Please, recommend non-problem WI-FI adapter

[snaut]

Hi.
Please, recommend WI-FI adapter, which can be used "out of the box" in Fedora 10 without messing with ndiswrapper, drivers compilation etc. I want to install fedora and have access to the internet immediately.
If you have such adapter, please write its model here.
Thanks.

[Regan486]

The broadcom 43xx series. Internal. Autoten gets the drivers running with ease

[sideways]

I have a Netgear WG111v2 USB adapter which just plugs and plays with NetworkManager, after autoloading the rtl8187 driver.

Problem is that manufacturers change the chipsets used in the adapters, so you can end up with identical looking adapters that are not both compatible.

[av1611]

basically, you want one that 2 years old :P

I like EDIMAX

[Firewing1]

Most Intel adapters work out of the box, and as mentioned above by Regan although it's not an immediately working card, the Broadcom 43xx series of cards work great once you install the broadcom-wl drivers.

[shess01]

My Broadcom BCM4306 was always a pain in the, um , neck! But heck that was back in the old days, pre-F7. Since then I have had an Intel 3945bg in the new laptop and it has worked "out-of-the-box". Never any issues with kernel upgrades or whatnot. Also, NetworkManager sees it fine and works like a charm. My impression is that Intel has been more supportive than most other vendors in their linux drivers. These 2 excerpts from this website might explain why.

Using kernels 2.6.24 and up
These kernels have the iwlwifi driver included and the released drivers (available from this site under download page) do not work with these kernels. If you want to run the latest (or very close to it) development code with your kernel then you should use the compat-wireless project that retrieves the latest driver development code from the upstream repository. We do push our changes to this repository very frequently.

Note: The iwlwifi driver has been merged into mainline kernel since 2.6.24. If you are using kernels after this release, please use the intree (drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi) driver directly. After 2.6.26 the intree driver iwlagn also supports the new 5100BG, 5100ABG, 5100AGN, 5300AGN and 5350AGN series hardwares.

Most people do not realize, but if your laptop uses the mini-pci version of wireless card replacing a problem card is a fairly easy and inexpensive task.

Hope this helps.