State of WLAN Support on Linux?

ntropic asks: "I/ve recently bought a Belkin 802.11G USB adapter and was dismayed to find, after a few hours of struggling with it, that there seems to be no one who has managed to get it working under Linux. During the search for clues, it seemed that sum total of Linux support for wireless networking are the linux-wlan project, and the linuxant wrappers for Windows drivers. The former seems to support only Prism chipsets while the latter is a commercial solution, albeit quite an inexpensive one. Is that all, or are there better sources for wireless networking support?"

Comments

Re:You should see wifi support for OSX

[Grey Ninja]

I have a mod point left that I would LOOOVE to give you. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the "-1 Idiot" option in the dropdown box.

Re:do your homework before your splurge your money

[UVABlows]

I thought I was the only one that LOVED spending hours looking "long and hard" when I want a piece of hardware. It's my hobby. I have nothing better to do than spend all my free time for 3 days trying to find out what wireless network card I should buy. I would never want whatever best buy has to JUST FUCKING WORK WITH LINUX FOR ONCE!

Re:Absolutely laughable!

[Professor_UNIX]

Just imagine how horribly complex and hard to maintain and evolce the XP kernel has to be.

I imagine the wads of cold hard cash that Windows users bring those manufacturers makes dealing with the Windows APIs a little more tolerable. Face it, there's no return on investment to employing someone to write a Linux driver for most hardware. How many Linux users are really in the market for that specific wireless USB network adapter? Probably about 250 around the entire world if they're lucky.

Re:MOD PARENT UP (and everyone else down)

[QuantumG]

shut your hole.