There is ONLY ONE reason why I use Windows

That reason is, my wireless card works with it.
Ever since I went wireless, I have had no choice
but to use Windows.

Recently I went to 5 stores looking for a Linux
compatible card: Bestbuy, Circuit city, CompUsa,
office depot, staples. All of them had cards
that don't work with Linux.

If someone could point me to a reseller
of Linux-compatible wireless cards under $50,
I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux,
making life easier.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> That reason is, my wireless card works with it.
> Ever since I went wireless, I have had no choice
> but to use Windows.
>
> Recently I went to 5 stores looking for a Linux
> compatible card: Bestbuy, Circuit city, CompUsa,
> office depot, staples. All of them had cards
> that don't work with Linux.
>
> If someone could point me to a reseller
> of Linux-compatible wireless cards under $50,
> I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux,
> making life easier.
>

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

Wireless LAN resources for Linux

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> That reason is, my wireless card works with it.
> Ever since I went wireless, I have had no choice
> but to use Windows.
>
> Recently I went to 5 stores looking for a Linux
> compatible card: Bestbuy, Circuit city, CompUsa,
> office depot, staples. All of them had cards
> that don't work with Linux.
>
> If someone could point me to a reseller
> of Linux-compatible wireless cards under $50,
> I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux,
> making life easier.
>

Ever hear of ndiswrapper?

It allows you to use windoze wireless nic drivers in Linux.

RK

On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:01:40 -0700, yarmfelder wrote:

> That reason is, my wireless card works with it. Ever since I went
> wireless, I have had no choice but to use Windows.
>
> Recently I went to 5 stores looking for a Linux compatible card: Bestbuy,
> Circuit city, CompUsa, office depot, staples. All of them had cards that
> don't work with Linux.
>
> If someone could point me to a reseller of Linux-compatible wireless cards
> under $50, I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux, making life
> easier.

My wireless cards work natively or via ndiswrapper. I couldn't even get a
Windows laptop to work with WPA! Under Linux it's a breeze.

What you want is
plug-n-play-without-thinking-what-you're-doing-software... I want to have
control over my machine, not the other way around.

--
gr,
maxx
:wq!

Afternoon,

On 2005-06-13, (E-Mail Removed) <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> That reason is, my wireless card works with it.
> Ever since I went wireless, I have had no choice
> but to use Windows.
>
> Recently I went to 5 stores looking for a Linux
> compatible card: Bestbuy, Circuit city, CompUsa,
> office depot, staples. All of them had cards
> that don't work with Linux.
>
This I find strange being that 3Com, Netgear, CISCO (binary only though),
<insert 101 whitelablled cards> work fine, stranger still its probably
actually more difficult to find a non-linux working wifi card than it is
working one.

> If someone could point me to a reseller
> of Linux-compatible wireless cards under $50,
> I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux,
> making life easier.
>
In the UK anywhere, as Netgear is a 'bigger brand' in the US I would imagine
its even easier to find card there.

On top of all this there are a bunch of options that involve a wrapper around
the Windoze drivers to work natively under Linux.

Please make this posting useful, if you posted the relevant spiel from
'lspci' and also what the wireless card actually is we probably would have
been able to point you to the actual drivers you need.

Actually, this probably is a troll as a regular user would have asked "I have
having trouble with card xyz, help"...

/me hands troll his coat and points him to the door.

Cheers

Alex

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maxx wrote:

> What you want is
> plug-n-play-without-thinking-what-you're-doing-software... I want to have
> control over my machine, not the other way around.

More like plug-n-pray.
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(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> That reason is, my wireless card works with it.
> Ever since I went wireless, I have had no choice
> but to use Windows.
>
> Recently I went to 5 stores looking for a Linux
> compatible card: Bestbuy, Circuit city, CompUsa,
> office depot, staples. All of them had cards
> that don't work with Linux.
>
> If someone could point me to a reseller
> of Linux-compatible wireless cards under $50,
> I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux,
> making life easier.
>

I've got a BT Voyager 1060 54g that works with SuSE 9.2. I'd hazard a
guess and say that it'd work with most other distros. It's a very good,
rock solid stable card, available in PCI or PCMCIA forms.

I also have an Edimax EW-7105PC PCMCIA 11c card (22Mbps), which is Prism
based. Works in Knoppix 3.4, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8, so it's fairly safe to
say that that'd work on a Debian-based box. Fairly stable, which is to
say, it drops sometimes, but then it drops sometimes in XP; I figure
it's shy of heat, since the port on my Dell sits directly above the
heatsink.

HTH

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Cheers, http://www.dotware.co.uk
Jim http://www.dotware-entertainment.co.uk

I'm not scared of the man who wants ten nuclear warheads.
I'm terrified of the man who who wants just one.
- Dr. Julia Kelly "The Peacemaker"

>What you want is

Not really. I want control too, but ndiswrapper, if it runs
a non open source driver, is not giving you real control.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote something like:

>>What you want is
>
> Not really. I want control too, but ndiswrapper, if it runs
> a non open source driver, is not giving you real control.

Do you really want to use linux or not. This statement is crap. You say you
will not use a non-open source driver, yet you use non-open source windows
as an alternative... I suppose you won't use nvidia drivers either?

Very troll-like behaviour, I fear.

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I use linux. Can anyone give me a good reason to use Windows?
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(E-Mail Removed) poked his little head through the XP firewall and said:

> If someone could point me to a reseller
> of Linux-compatible wireless cards under $50,
> I could switch 95% of my work back to Linux,
> making life easier.

You don't care about Linux, flarkbark.

You might want to find an open proxy to disguise yourself.

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When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.