[CALUG] Fedora core 4 and Linksys wireless

[Kelly Price]

It all depends on the chipset:

* Broadcom -- forget the kernel driver that's in 2.6.17.  Let it
mature and get a refund.
* Atheros -- MadWifi driver
* Ralink -- RT2x00 driver
* Prism FullMAC -- Kernel driver I belive now, but there's a dedicated
prism driver.
* Intel iw2200 et al -- Intel's drivers (although I think they too are
integrated)

I have a no-name card, which uses the RaLink chipset.  lspci actually
lists it as a Ralink.

On 7/10/06, Hugh Brown <brownclan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/10/06, Brian Debelius <bdebelius at intelesyscorp.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm using a Netgear W511T out of the box with Ubuntu.  I could never get
> > my linksys card to work.
> >
> > brian-
> >
> > julsford at comcast.net wrote:
> > > I have no idea how to get it running.  I've seen some stuff about using
> > a wrapper program, but it seems like a hacked at approach, and I didn't know
> > if there was something better, or if there was a better brand of wireless
> > card that supports Linux.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Julie
> > >
> > > PS- Kelly, I'm looking up the chipset - thanks!
> > >
> > > -------------- Original message --------------
> > > From: "william kelly" <william.kelly.jr at gmail.com>
> > > whats your issue?
> > >
> > >
> > > On 7/9/06, julsford at comcast.net <julsford at comcast.net > wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I'm looking for help getting a Linksys wireless pci card running with
> > Fedora core 4 - any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Also, are there any Linux kernals that have wireless support built in?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Julie Ford
>
>
>
> ndiswrapper is sort of the default when there isn't native support (
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/).  A guy in my office has gotten a
> Linksys WMP54G to work this way.  He says that for that model, the only way
> to get it to work was ndiswrapper and he wouldn't recommend it.
>
> Hugh
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