Phoenix Network Forums

I've decided today, that I'm going on strike with the purpose of "FORCING" linux to make total support for Wlan0... with no config necessary... all the pain in trying to get linux to work with my wireless, could possibly be turning me off the Linux system... Your thought's would be great...

Later,
Coleys.

just buy a card that has good linux support - if you hate your broadcom card return it..

It was a pain in the rectom to get my old netgear wireless adapter working with ndiswrapper.

The network driver of my wireless simply made the entire system crash when I loaded it in ndis >_>

I tend to agree with the statement about buying hardware with good Linux support, no different than any other OS really, you gotta go with what you know works. I'm looking at upgrading my system and you can bet that I will be checking the kernel source for complete support before purchase.

To that I have to say that on different distros I had different difficulties configuring, but on averege it's not too complicated (maybe because I'm used to it)..
The best experience which I had so far is sabayon, which when I booted, automagically connected to my router and has a nice and easy connection tool (knetworkmanager on kde).
So I vote easy.