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Topic: Linux. Laptops. 802.11g. Share your experiences.
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sconzey
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posted May 05, 2005 15:02
Okay, about this time last year I bought a network card for my laptop. A Linksys Wireless-G whatever. Yes. I know I'm an idiot.
I got home to find not only did it not work with linux, but it is notorious for not doing so.
My linksys is now busted. I'm buying a new one, but what should I get? Working with linux fairly easily is a must (I can compile source and tweak, but I'm no guru). An external antennae socket would be nice.
What do you have geeks?
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magefile
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posted May 05, 2005 21:19
I haven't done this in a long time, but IIRC, PrismII is well supported. Avoid Broadcom like the plague. If you're running on x86, you can use ndiswrapper, but that's probably a PITA.
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drunkennewfiemidget
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posted May 06, 2005 04:59
Have you given ndiswrapper a try? It's a program that lets you load Windows drivers in Linux. I have an el-cheapo 802.11b Linksys cardbus card that has no Linux drivers (well, it has a closed-source, broken, compiles-only-against-2.4.21-and-causes-kernel-panics) driver.
the ndiswrapper driver makes it work flawlessly.
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