On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 19:22:49 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>> Or I have to install it on that machine over there, which for
>>>> perfectly valid reasons has no network connectivity at all.
>>> Yes, that too. (Although in my case, the "valid reason" is usually "I
>>> can't get Linux to believe me that a NIC exists"...)
>> 
>> Is it a NIC that is supported?
> 
> Define "supported".

One that a driver is provided for and that has been verified to work.

> It tends not to be a problem these days. But for example, when I first
> set up my shiny new socket-939 board with the brand new nForce-4
> chipset, none of the distros I tried could handle the SATA controller or
> either of the two NICs.

I've got a system with an nForce chipset, but I'm not sure which; newer 
hardware sometimes isn't supported right away when the specs change and 
aren't shared with the kernel devs, though; the wireless card in this 
machine (it's the one I'm using, actually) doesn't work well with Linux, 
but it's not important to me because the system is right under my 
ethernet switch and has a functioning ethernet card in it.

The wireless *works*, but after a few minutes of serving up data, it 
starts doing something (not sure what, haven't diagnosed it) that kills 
my access point completely.

But when I first installed Linux on it, the card wasn't even recognized 
because it was so new.

So it has improved.

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