OT: Belkin wireless products

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Mon Feb 2 20:21:43 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Andrew Robinson wrote:

> What was the router firmware issue?
> 
> pctech at mybellybutton.com wrote:
> > I wouldn't use Belkin wireless products on a dare
> > after their whole router firmware issue.

their router hijacked a random http connection every 2 hours and 
redirected it to a website selling some other of their products...

joelja
 
> > --- David Hobley <davidh at sharpblue.org> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
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