[vox-tech] Fujitsu & Atheros?

[Harold Lee]

Richard Harke wrote:
> On Fri January 26 2007 12:08, Bob Scofield wrote:
>> Here are two easy questions:
>>
>> 1)  Is it true that, all other things being equal, a Linux user would
>> prefer an Atheros wireless card because of better driver support?
> I sought out an Atheros based card for my HP laptop. (Linksys WPC55AG)
> I had to build the driver from source tar-ball, but given that, it was
> one of the easiest installs I've done. And I have native 64 bit for
> my AMD64 Kubuntu system.
To weigh in on the other side, I have a (company issued) Thinkpad with 
the Intel wireless card built-in. Getting it working requires you're 
okay with Intel's proprietary binary license (if that's a deal breaker, 
Atheros is the way to go), and can download the firmware file. Once you 
copy it into /lib/firmware, life is good. I haven't had any problems 
using it, and it actually works better than in Windows for me.

-Harold