<div>Hi all,</div>
<div>there is any plan to release in FC5 the AdvancedDatapath WiFi software stack, just released from Devicescape under GPL licence as for <a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS1977847793.html">http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS1977847793.html
</a> ?</div>
<div>This seem a definitive response to the nigthmare of WiFi in Linux.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Alessandro<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Pifer</b> <<a href="mailto:jep@obrien-pifer.com">jep@obrien-pifer.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:47 -0400, James Pifer wrote:<br>> Is wireless support any better with FC5?<br>
><br>> I'm on FC4 now and have been using ndiswrapper with a Broadcom card for<br>> some time: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN<br>> Controller (rev 03). Recently my DLink DI-624 router died and I just got
<br>> the replacement. Now I can't get FC4 to reconnect. I can scan the<br>> wireless network and see it, but I can't connect to it.<br>><br>> I've also tried two PCMCIA cards, a DLink DWL-G650 with the Atheros
<br>> chipset (I've never got this to work) and a CompUSA card with an unknown<br>> chipset (doesn't work either).<br>><br>> I've also never been able to get WEP to work, so I've been stuck using<br>> no encryption and filtering MACs. I would filter MACs anyway, but would
<br>> really like to use WEP, even though it's not the greatest security.<br>><br>> All three of these NICs work fine when I boot to Windows XP.<br>><br>> So I'm wondering if FC5 improves anything. I've heard that SUSE is much
<br>> better at handling wireless, but I really like Fedora/Redhat.<br>><br>> Any suggestions are appreciated.<br>><br>> James<br>><br><br>Just wanted to post an update here. I've installed FC5, and although I
<br>have some other issues, my wireless card is working great using bcm43xx-<br>fwcutter with encryption. No ndiswrapper or madwifi.<br><br>Many, many thanks to the developer(s) of this little package!<br><br>James<br><br>
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</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Alessandro Brezzi<br>