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To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>

Subject: Re: Any support for wireless-G in FC3?

From: "Phillip T. George" <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:40:50 -0500

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Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:56 -0700, Jim Lowman wrote:

One of my computers is in another room of the house, using a Linksys 
WMP54G wireless-G
network adapter.

Any hope that this device will be supported by FC3?


Not as such.  It's got a Broadcom chip, and Broadcom are famously
clueless when it comes to Linux driver support.

You may have luck using ndiswrapper.

By the way, I found all of this out by Googling for "wmp54g linux".

	<b

Jim,

If there isn't one available now, I don't think it will take long before there is one out. The differences between the types of wireless (B & G for example) are probably mostly handled by the actual hardware and not the device driver. Just a theory though.

-Phillip