On 01/14/2018 10:42 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Sun, 14 Jan 2018 10:11:57 -0700
JD wrote:

Could you or someone list some chipsets (even legacy ones)
that are very likely fully supported by f27 distribution iso
right out of the box.\
Well, I've got this one in my F27 desktop at work providing
wifi for my phone and tablet acting as an access point:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0411:01a2 BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.) 
WLI-UC-GNM Wireless LAN Adapter [Ralink RT8070]

It is a cute little thing, just a tad bigger than the USB
slot it is plugged into.

You can probably guess some more by looking in the
kernel modules directories at:

/usr/lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
I looked at older installations I have, and I am shocked to see they
contain the b43 and b43legacy  wireless drivers.
How come they did not make it into f27????

See below:

$ find /lib/modules/ -name b43\*
/lib/modules/3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43
/lib/modules/3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
/lib/modules/3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy
/lib/modules/3.19.8-100.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
/lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43
/lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
/lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy
/lib/modules/3.11.10-301.fc20.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
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