[CLUE-Tech] seeking wireless card

[Matt Gushee]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 07:38:53PM -0700, BOF wrote:
> 
> I bought a Linksys WPC55AG 802.11a/g wireless notebook card (somewhere I 
> had seen it as Linux-compatible) but, alas, it does not seem to be 
> recognized by Fedora Core 2.  Has anyone been able to get this card 
> working under Linux?

I don't know about that specific model, but I recently bought a Linksys
WPC54GS. Bit of a careless choice ... I somehow had the impression that
Linksys was a Linux-friendly company, so I figured "sure it'll work."

I found that there is no native Linux driver for this card, but it turns
out it works with a Windoze driver via the ndiswrapper module. Kinda
sucks to have to use that proprietary software, but at least I have a
fully functional wireless card. Maybe the same thing will work for
yours.

I forget where I found ndiswrapper (it's a third-party kernel module),
but I'm sure Google will tell you.

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