Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-23 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 03:51:34PM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote: > Would someone be able to possibly tell me the most used wireless drivers > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box and not > require much 3rd party support? For example, intel, realtek (sp?), >

Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-23 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 04:08:43PM -0700, Petrus de Calguarium wrote: > Mike Chambers wrote: > > > wireless drivers > > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box > > My laptop has a BROADCOM NETXTREME BCM5751M GIGABIT ETHERNET and it uses the >

Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-22 Thread JD
On 11/22/2010 01:51 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Would someone be able to possibly tell me the most used wireless drivers > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box and not > require much 3rd party support? For example, intel, realtek (sp?), > atheros, etc..ar

Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-22 Thread Petrus de Calguarium
Mike Chambers wrote: > wireless drivers > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box My laptop has a BROADCOM NETXTREME BCM5751M GIGABIT ETHERNET and it uses the tg3 kernel module. I just booted up after the initial installation and it just worked. The kernel modul

Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-22 Thread Kevin J. Cummings
On 11/22/2010 04:51 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Would someone be able to possibly tell me the most used wireless drivers > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box and not > require much 3rd party support? For example, intel, realtek (sp?), > atheros, etc..ar

Re: Wireless drivers

2010-11-22 Thread Steven Stern
On 11/22/2010 03:51 PM, Mike Chambers wrote: > Would someone be able to possibly tell me the most used wireless drivers > in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box and not > require much 3rd party support? For example, intel, realtek (sp?), > atheros, etc..ar

Wireless drivers

2010-11-22 Thread Mike Chambers
Would someone be able to possibly tell me the most used wireless drivers in laptops that are mostly supported by Fedora, out of the box and not require much 3rd party support? For example, intel, realtek (sp?), atheros, etc..are those open source drivers or at least supported fairly good? Is