On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:49:41AM -0800, Andrew Perry wrote:
other OS, installation of a wireless adapter is easy, and the OS generally recognizes it instantly. Are there any linux distros that will do the same thing (perhaps in conjunction with certain wireless adapters) ?
You might try the newest release of a distro. With Fedora Core 3 there have been vast improvements in the area of hardware hotplugging, detection, and configuration integrated with the desktop. There is still more work to do, but it is getting better all the time. I'm not aware specifically of which USB adapters work best. These resources might be useful: SuSE Hardware Database: http://hardwaredb.suse.de/?LANG=en_US Generic Linux USB/Networking/Wireless resources: http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html#net http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Wireless-HOWTO.html http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/ Finally, you could always bring your machine to a WLUG meeting, and someone could probably give a try at making it work :-) Maybe we need another Linux Install/Configure Fest!