On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:47 -0400, James Pifer wrote: > Is wireless support any better with FC5? > > I'm on FC4 now and have been using ndiswrapper with a Broadcom card for > some time: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN > Controller (rev 03). Recently my DLink DI-624 router died and I just got > the replacement. Now I can't get FC4 to reconnect. I can scan the > wireless network and see it, but I can't connect to it. > > I've also tried two PCMCIA cards, a DLink DWL-G650 with the Atheros > chipset (I've never got this to work) and a CompUSA card with an unknown > chipset (doesn't work either). > > I've also never been able to get WEP to work, so I've been stuck using > no encryption and filtering MACs. I would filter MACs anyway, but would > really like to use WEP, even though it's not the greatest security. > > All three of these NICs work fine when I boot to Windows XP. > > So I'm wondering if FC5 improves anything. I've heard that SUSE is much > better at handling wireless, but I really like Fedora/Redhat. > > Any suggestions are appreciated. > > James > Just wanted to post an update here. I've installed FC5, and although I have some other issues, my wireless card is working great using bcm43xx- fwcutter with encryption. No ndiswrapper or madwifi. Many, many thanks to the developer(s) of this little package! James
