Hiya Everyone

recently i have been experiencing allot of problems regarding wireless networking in linux.

I currently have an Atheros SuperRange SuperRange Cardbus WI-FI card, an Orinoco Wireless card and an Linkseys Wireless card.

And with neither of them, i have been able to set them up correctly, because of hardware and linux problems.


Im really new to Linux, and i was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction to which distribution is good at handling Wireless networking ???? (especially the Atheros Card)

e.g Installation of drivers, talking to the hardware ect.



Currently I have Tried SuSe 10, which is no good as it just "crashes" when acivating the wireless cards

Neither Fedora Core 5 is no good either, as i just get errors regarding Wi-Fi hardware and drivers.


Thanks

Kai

PCLinuxOS picked up my orinoco without issue. In fact, PCLinuxOS handled everything I threw at it aside from a Prism Xbow chipset card without complaints. I recommend it to everyone. Soon .94 will be coming out (early next year or sooner) but I think you should just grab .93 Big Daddy and use that until .94 comes out.

Happy Linuxing or however that statement goes!

I would suggest trying each one you can. SUSE (10.1 - which is leaps and bounds better than 10.0 for wireless), Fedora, Ubuntu, Mandriva and Linspire all allow for live CD/DVD options. You just download, burn and boot from the DVD. You can try out which one works best for your hardware.

That's how I came to use SUSE. I had been using Mandrake and then it didn't see my USB printer. I then switched to SUSE which did.

Good luck!!

The drivers are in the kernel. so all the distros can have the same support if configured properly. people are so quick to switch distros, I mean my computer is all set up the way I want and I'm not going to wipe it and start over with an unfamiliar distro just because 1 thing doesn't work out of the box. try some distros and find one you like it's a matter of preference. fixing a few small issues is probably going to be quicker (and more educational) then searching through the over 400 distros for the holy grail that magically works; and even if you do find it what happens when you get new hardware that isn't supported? you will be back where you started. everyone always asks 'which distro' but they might as well be asking what your favorite color is. the question is just as pointless.

which orinoco card? The classic gold PC card should work with any distro.