I have the PCI card working with the ndiswrapper under Mandrake (and realising my mistake with Mandrake now trying to configure it with Fedora). I have had no problems with it at all. Cheers, david On Monday 02 February 2004 17:58, Michael Kearey wrote: > Andrew Robinson wrote: > > 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
