wireless with Linux

[davbeck]

I was wondering what have your experience been with wireless in Linux?

[darkscot]

I never mananged to get my Linksys WMP-11 PCI card to work with any version of Linux. Apart from that everything else i have tried has worked fine. In fact the card on my laptop works better in Linux than it does with XP.

[Darksurf]

My broadcom 4318 works most of the time, until recently with 3.3 everything worked great. In 3.3 my wireless card didn't work, knetwork problem I believe...

It would begin to connect, but wouldn't.

[chickpea]

My ancient cisco aironet 350 8.11b wireless card works under PCLOS2007, but has never worked with SL. It has solid kernel based support, so I am fairly sure this is a knetworkmanager issue. I just haven't cared enough to try and fix it (or even investigate why it doesn't work). Since I have a OLD laptop and the battery doesn't work, it is a defacto desktop now that I just leave plugged into a wired connection, so maybe sometime I will get the energy to get it working.

[monday90]

I started with Suse which used to support my Edimax 7108pcg card excellently. Since 10.0(ish) they dropped support for the Ralink RT2500 chipset which was one of many things which set me on the route to finding another distro. I never tried it with SL 3.26 but it works without any problem in SL 3.3.