23 Jul
2013
23 Jul
'13
11:54 p.m.
Wireless in any *nix is going to be iffy and not
very good, simply because there's
not enough folk in the linux world working on wireless *and* the wireless hardware
manufacturers aren't helping one iota, so the few linux dev's working on
wireless
are forced to do everything by baby steps. It's a shame, but that's just the
way
it is at present.
--
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.” -John v.
Lindsey
On PCLinuxOS, if the very few cases where the wireless can't work with the native
drivers, which are all included stock, even for non-free ones, you can use your Windows
driver with ndiswrapper. It even has a wizard in the Control Center to guide the user to
choose either a native driver or one of the included Windows drivers for ndiswrapper. If
your driver is not in the list, you can provide your own Windows driver. On every
PCLinuxOS computers I tried, Wi-Fi was rock solid, as reliable as wired ethernet, and this
on a wide variety of networks.
This is a case where a distro that has comprehensive hardware support and config tools is
important.
-Alexandre