[CLUE-Tech] seeking wireless card

[Dale K. Hawkins]

I have the 802.11b version of the card (when Linksys switched
chipsets... groan!)

Anyhow, I too can attest to the power of the ndiswrapper stuff.
Furthermore, IIRC, it is readily available as either an rpm or deb.
Nifty stuff.  Though in the future, I plan to watch the minor version
number of the card better (the previous version of the same card did
work with native support).

-Dale

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 23:24 -0700, Matt Gushee wrote:
> 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.
>