[wplug] Wireless cards and redhat..

[Mike]

Too bad more vendors don't get into the game.  

I bought a cheap AirLink G card that uses the texas instruments
chipset.  I called their support department for the heck of it.  One
of the reps said there is a program out there that will load the
windows drivers and get it working.  Didn't know the name of it, would
that be the ndiswrapper you mentioned?  (would search but I'm proxied)
:(

-Mike


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:11:37 -0400 (EDT), Bryon Gill <bgtrio at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
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