Wireless networking

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 01:39, Charlie Bullen wrote:
> Good Morning, 
> 
> Is there a linux distro that supports wireless networking out of the box? I 
> have a linksys WMP11 card that uses the prism chipset. I need to be able to 
> 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 distro 
> 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, download 
> 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 the 
> workplace than as a play computer at home. And this wireless stuff is just 
> for fun so I want to make it easy.
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can't tell you for sure on the Linksys out of the box experience...

Prism drivers are not included with Redhat as they are not open source
but they are apparently available elsewhere to download.

Craig