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wg311 running on FC2 by Anonymous on Thu 27th May 2004 17:33 UTC
Any definitive howtos, FAQs, articles to get wg311 without
trying a zillion sugestions? Not a flame, but you'd think that
with the benefits of pnp, non-exotic hardware detection and
installation would be a top priority for a major desktop-
oriented distribution. (Maybe I'm wrong and wireless detection
is not a top priority, must-have feature. In all fairness, MDK
10-com. doesn't detect it either.)  Assuming this quote, found
on   Some vendors refuse to release specs or even a binary
linux-driver for their WLAN cards. This project tries to solve
this problem by making a kernel module that can load Ndis
(windows network driver API) drivers. We're not trying to
implement all of the Ndis API but rather implement the functions
needed to get these unsupported cards working."  is true, does
it imply that major linux distros will not have out-of-the-box
wireless configuration (read - requires r