Darren, Thanks for the response and the advice.
This is for personal use and not any kind of distribution so I have no problem with fwcutter and such, as long as all the necessary pieces are freely available on line. I just don't like to use M$ drivers or somebody's obscure bootleg driver from a website in the netherworld. What I'm really looking for is a card that will give me the least problems with NM even if it may not be the top rated for signal strength etc. Within reason of course. I don't want constant disconnects. I really have a need for the functionality that NM is intending to provide and would like to get started with the current release on the laptop. It's a gentoo box so I can configure whatever is necessary fairly easily. I am expecting some problems with KDE though since NM is so gnome-centric at the present time, especially on gentoo. As long as I get a card that is familiar to the contributers to the NM mailing list, with a little help I should be able to get through it. Cheap is always good too. Rod Darren Albers wrote: > This list has some information specific to chipsets: > http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware > > Personally, I have had great experience with Intel based Chipsets > however they are not available (that I am aware of) as a pccard. > > One of my work laptops has an Atheros chipset and it works ok outside > of the problems with signal strength and disconnects. I would not say > that the driver is completely Open-Source since it has a closed-source > HAL. > > The Broadcom driver has come a long way, but I /think/ it requires > fwcutter to extract non-open firmware so you may not consider it to be > completely open source as well. > > If you can find one of the older Prism54 Fullmac cards it would be > your best bet since the driver is completely open source. > > Thanks, > Darren > > On 3/1/07, Rod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Linux x86 >> Open drivers only. No ndiswrapper please. >> Reasonably priced even better. >> Any suggestions? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetworkManager-list mailing list >> NetworkManager-list@gnome.org >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
