With the right settings and driver, you should be able to connect to open and closed wireless networks with Linux. Closed wireless networks will require a passkey to access, a specific authentication ...

It doesn't take many looks over my articles to work out that I'm a bit of an open-source fanboy. It's not that I hate Microsoft or wish that Windows would fall into the pit of 1,000 hells and burn ...

Where can I find Linux hardware drivers for my USB wireless network adapter? Linux driver information for Atmel AT76C503A-based wireless USB devices can be found here. Drivers and installation ...

The popular penetration-testing distribution Kali Linux has dropped its latest quarterly snapshot: version 2025.3. This release continues the tradition of the rolling-release model used by the project ...

Recently around September 9th, it was announced that Broadcom was finally going to open up the source code for its drivers of its wireless chipsets to the Linux community. This is a huge step in the ...

Wireless networking has become a mass-market technology, and the price of 802.11 or Wi-Fi gear has fallen to commodity levels. Several thousand competitors with virtually identical products now are ...

Although Linux has traditionally had a reputation for shaky support of wireless networking, this is largely a thing of the past. Modern versions of Linux, such as the Ubuntu distribution, support most ...

Mobile Linux users have a variety of options when it comes to wireless connectivity tools. Jack Wallen outlines some of the best choices to help you find one that will work for you. Mobile Linux users ...

After installing a new Netgear Wireless-N Dual Band Router (review), I was anxious to test Linux with it. So far the results are... well... mixed. First, the baseline ...

Back in college none of these were in the mainline distros. You had to download the source code, compile it, and load it. Often times the compile would fail, and you ...