[PLUG] Why Laptop Cannot Find Wireless Networks

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Aug 4 22:52:06 UTC 2011


On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Mike Cherba wrote:

>    Just out of curiosity, what model wireless card do you have?  I've seen
> similar issues with the broadcom card in my wife's laptop, but not with my
> intel one.  It got to the point where I finally just bought an Intel card
> for her laptop.  Now I'm just waiting for the weekend so I can install it
> for her.  Experience has taught me that the chipset for 802.11 is absolutely
> critical in getting good, stable performance on wifi under Linux.

Mike,

   I believe that I ordered it with an Intel wifi chip.

Rich



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