wireless pcmcia
Adam Cooper
adam.cooper at port.ac.uk
Wed Jun 16 13:41:23 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 14:26, Nejc Novak wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a Linksys WPC54G PCMCIA card. This card supports 802.11g and b
> standard. I can't get it working. I've pluged it in my laptop but dmesg
> doesn't show anything. Anyone has this card or do you have any advice?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
> Nejc
That card uses a Broadcom chipset. Unfortunately for linux users
Broadcom refuses to release its hardware specs to linux driver
developers.
However there is linux software that allows you to use it by
implementing a wrapper for the windows drivers.
You can choose:
Linuxant - http://www.linuxant.com
or
Ndiswrapper - http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/
Linuxant costs money but comes with support and other things that you
pay for. Ndiswrapper is free but requires a bit of fiddling (In my
experience)
I went with Ndiswrapper and haven't had any problems.
--
Adam Cooper <adam.cooper at port.ac.uk>
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