On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 08:53:28 -0800, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Camaleon -- unfortunately the wifi / USB page you pointed me to > specifies which chipsets work well with Debian, but not which devices > you can buy at a store or on Amazon.
HCL lists are aimed to enumerate devices and their modules that work out- of-the-box, have problems for setting up or that don't work at all. With that information you can go then to the store and buy the device with a little more confidence (not 100% but is better than nothing). So if your device uses "intersil/prism" or "realtek" chipset and that chipset is listed there and marked as "works/detected", then there are many chances that it works fine. > I was never able to figure out how > to make use of that page as most vendors and retailers do not think that > the chipset information is of vital importance to the buyer, hence it is > obscure at the time of purchase. True, that information is not always easy to find (not present even in technical specs) but Google helps a lot here. Anyway, I thought you were asking for a place where to put that your USB dongle works fine so others users can benefit form that information :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.30.17.44...@gmail.com
