[wplug] Wireless cards and redhat..

[Bryon Gill]

Be careful.  D-Link has a number of cards that have the same model number but 
different chipsets - a few of them can't be made to work even with ndiswrapper. 
I used to have one and sold it to a windows user b/c I couldn't make it work. 
(sigh)  I think it actually was a DWL-650.

Wireless is still a trouble spot for linux.  I've had to use the ndiswrapper 
module for all the wireless G cards I've ever used under linux.  I had great 
success with the linksys wpc-11 (an 802.11b card), it worked immediately under 
Fedora 1- but if you want a G card I'm afraid it's not easy.

Ndiswrapper isn't too hard to set up, but it's not simple for the novice user 
either.

Bryon




On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Mike wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:44:06 -0400, Karlos Abel <kgreat4 at connecttime.net> wrote:
>> I have a D-Link DWL-650 that works really well.  you may have to
>> download the drivers/firmware from Prism54.org, but it's remarkably easy
>> to set up.
>
> Hrm, thanks.  Will check this one out.
>
> Want to tinker around with setting up a hotspot and use a linux box to
> do a captive portal type system..
>
> -Mike
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