Hi all,
there is any plan to release in FC5 the AdvancedDatapath WiFi software stack, just released from Devicescape under GPL licence as for http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS1977847793.html
?
This seem a definitive response to the nigthmare of WiFi in Linux.
Alessandro
On 5/3/06, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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
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