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Author: Charlie Bullen
Date:  
Old-Topics: NIC driver install
Subject: Wireless networking
Good Morning,=20

Is there a linux distro that supports wireless networking out of the box?=
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have a linksys WMP11 card that uses the prism chipset. I need to be able =
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use it in ad-hoc mode, that is without a wireless access point.

In my possession, I have Suse 8.0, Redhat 7.3, both as a stand alone dist=
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and as part of the K12LTSP distro and Mandrake 8.1

Would any of these work? Or is there one that I can either purchase, down=
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or pick up a disk from someone that would do this?

As an aside, I have had much better results using linux as a desktop in t=
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workplace than as a play computer at home. And this wireless stuff is jus=
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for fun so I want to make it easy.

Charlie