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. 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. Not sure if that's worth anything or not, just my $.02. -------------- Original message -------------- From: Steven White <swhite at ci.bloomington.mn.us> > Greetings from a lurker. > > I have a desktop computer (built myself totally from parts on sale > after rebate) on the second floor of our house, running SUSE 10.1, and I > would like to get it to connect to the Qwest Actiontec DSL modem which > has wireless capability, so I don't have to run a cable down the stairs > if I want to use the internet. I know that the wireless function works > because my spouse uses her office laptop with wireless. I know that the > WIRED connection to the Linux desktop works because I actually have run > a cable down the stairs to the modem to test. > > I don't have enough money in my personal toy budget to keep buying > wireless PCI network cards and trying them until I find one that works. > I did that once (an off-brand wireless network card on sale after > rebate) and I could not make it work. I have looked at the hardware > compatibility list on the opensuse.org web site, and all the network > cards mentioned (there are not many) seem to have some "gotcha," like > needing a driver from somewhere, needing ndiswrapper, etc. I would like > to find something that just works. > > So to the question, does anyone know of a specific brand and model of > PCI wireless network card that I could put in my computer, that would > work "out of the box"? > > Thank you. > > > Steven White > City of Bloomington > 1800 W Old Shakopee Rd > Bloomington MN 55431-3096 > USA > 952-563-4882 (voice) > 952-563-4672 (fax) > steven.white at ci.bloomington.mn.us > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070201/1efcc60d/attachment.htm