I wouldn't use Belkin wireless products on a dare after their whole router firmware issue. --- David Hobley <davidh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ===== -------------------------------------------------------------- "Never memorize what you can look up." -Albert Einstein
