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April 4, 2005 at 07:32 AM
jck

Linux and the wireless network driver

by jck . Updated 21 years, 1 month ago

OK, ladies and gents (and those who don’t want to be classified as either):

Over the weekend, I downloaded and did default installs of 6 flavors of Linux onto the new drive I received on Friday. Linspire seems to have been the only Linux that, by default, found and loaded a driver for my Xterasys 802.11b wireless network card.

Being as I haven’t messed with Linux in about 6-7 years, I can’t remember a lot about the OS. Plus, now it’s GUI and all I remember is command-line interfaces.

Do most Linux distros have a tool now to load a driver, or do I need to do this manually still? I know that I saw an interface for loading drivers for a device, but I didn’t see the appropriate one for mine in the list and I didn’t see an equivalent to the Microsloth “Browse” button.

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