Wireless card suggestions

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Fri Oct 9 11:29:53 EDT 2009


Even if the card isn't natively supported, there's always Ndiswrapper.  I think this comes 
with most modern distros, and is relatively easy to get going.  I've had a lot of success 
getting cards working with this, and have only had a couple of issues with it.

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:47:42PM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks very much for your suggestion.  I'll send it to him.  I 
> personally like Intel NICs but I don't know anything about wireless.  
> Regarding list policy, since he made it very clear to me that he doesn't 
> want X, he would most likely use Speakup.  I don't think he has a 
> Braille display.  Therefore, I want to find the best distro for a new 
> user that includes speech out of the box without X, so I think it's on 
> topic for the Speakup list.
> 
> On 10/8/2009 10:33 PM, Jason White wrote:
> >as for Linux distributions, GRML would be a good start: it's a live CD 
> >that a
> >new user can try without having to install, and it includes Speakup and 
> >BRLTTY
> >by default. It would be my first preference for anyone who wants to boot 
> >Linux
> >on a machine, get straight to a shell prompt and experiment.
> >
> >I don't know what the mailing list policy is, but if this is off-topic it
> >might be a good idea to move the discussion to private e-mail.
> >   
> 
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