This was a very welcome and pleasant surprise.
I had bought a wireless card for my daughters pc a while back and put it into her pc running Linux Mint XFCE. The install was ok, had issues with it not automatically connecting, but whatever.
Well, I decided to hook her pc up wired to the router, so of course I took the wireless card out. I dropped it into my pc running Kubuntu 9.04 with the expectation of having to do at least a little bit of configuring.
To my surprise this was not the case. I started up the system and it instantly recognized the card. I opened up the wireless setting and entered my pass key and that was it. I was instantly connected to the internet.
So I guess everyone is wondering what card I was using right?
It was a cheap Rosewill with a wired antenna. This one to be exact ->
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166020
I am very happy to see how far Linux has come with handling wireless. I know there are still some issues, but everything looks to be headed in the right direction.
I had bought a wireless card for my daughters pc a while back and put it into her pc running Linux Mint XFCE. The install was ok, had issues with it not automatically connecting, but whatever.
Well, I decided to hook her pc up wired to the router, so of course I took the wireless card out. I dropped it into my pc running Kubuntu 9.04 with the expectation of having to do at least a little bit of configuring.
To my surprise this was not the case. I started up the system and it instantly recognized the card. I opened up the wireless setting and entered my pass key and that was it. I was instantly connected to the internet.
So I guess everyone is wondering what card I was using right?
It was a cheap Rosewill with a wired antenna. This one to be exact ->
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833166020
I am very happy to see how far Linux has come with handling wireless. I know there are still some issues, but everything looks to be headed in the right direction.
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