[wplug] Wireless cards and redhat..

Bryon Gill bgtrio at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 20 09:11:57 EDT 2004


Yes.

Documentation and download links here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Installation

You'll need to have the source to your kernel on your machine so that you can 
build a kernel module.

Bryon



  On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Mike wrote:

> 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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