In today's Sunday newspaper, Office Max is advertising some very good rebate deals on Belkin 802.11g wireless products. (Actually they say 54G. Is there a difference?) I was looking at the wireless router and the wireless notebook card. The PC card would go in a Dell Latittude laptop that mostly runs Windows 2000, but on which I also run Linux (Redhat 9 currently, though I plan to update to Fedora Core 1). I know very little about the relative merits of different vendors' wireless products. So I was hoping to get some opinions from folks on this list.
Is the Belkin router and adapter worth having? Will the laptop adapter work with Linux? Any thing else I should know about them?
I have a Belkin PCI card adapter , according to the box '54g' and 802.11b compatible. It's a ' Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)' for which there are no working drivers in Linux. HOWEVER....
I managed to get it to work using the gadget available at www.linuxant.com, if you feel like paying a few dollars ($19 US).
There is also a project that does the ndiswrapper. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ that may get it working after a bit of a fiddle. I haven't tried yet, and didn't know about it until after I'd got the driver from linuxant :/
The thing I like about Belkin is the 'Life time warranty' if that's any help to you . The thing I really dislike is that they don't have GPL Linux drivers available..
Cheers, Michael
