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Idea #936: Better integration of wireless cards

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #295: Better wi-fi support.
Written by hashbangfoo the 29 Feb 08 at 05:02. Category: Internet & Networking. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Yeah, I know it is a problem across all distros (AFAIK), but the reverse engineering on wireless G drivers with support for WPA and WPA2 are sorely needed. I have a bunch of PCMCIA cards that are gathering dust because I *hate* fiddling with ndiswrapper... I know, buy the ones that are supported. But do the noobs check their HCL before that impulse buy at Wallyworld or Frys?
BTW, I started with Linux back in the Yggdrasil and Slackware days (13 floppies with a custom X compile to make it work).
Thanks Canonical for making Linux so very accessible!!!
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Written by hashbangfoo the 29 Feb 08 at 05:02.
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Graf wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 08:02
So essential.

Especially since wireless cards that worked for one iteration of ubuntu are suddenly, mysteriously broken at the next.

It's not sexy, but this sort of core functionality deserves some effort.


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