Linksys warning

[davidaikema@shaw.ca]

Thanks for the suggestions.  There is a London Drugs about 5 minutes down the road from here.  IIRC, they may have had a few Netgear and/or SMC products, but they online stocked the usb and pcmcia products.  My linux server doesn't have any usb ports, although I believe it would be possible to pickup an adaptor card.  Perhaps I may be able to special order something.

Maybe what I should be doing is just hucking another ethernet card into the machine and hooking that up to a wireless router.  That way 

David Aikema

----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Sanford <rsanford at telusplanet.net>
Date: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:59 am
Subject: Re: Linksys warning

> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:49, davidaikema at shaw.ca wrote:
> > After the comments on the list and seeing that the suport section of
> > linksys's website listed a linux driver package for the card, I went
> > out today and purchased a Linksys WMP11 (802.11b wireless pci card).
> > 
> > Upon inserting it into my machine, I discovered that I had 
> basically a
> > different card then the support section of the linksys website
> > indicated.  This card (version 2.7) now has a broadcom chipset, for
> > which linux support seems nonexistant at this point.
> > 
> > I just fired off a somewhat angry email to the company (I had a bad
> > experience with one of their ethernet adaptors a couple of years 
> back,> which listed linux support on the box but refused to work 
> with the
> > drivers included on disc in the box or any other available 
> drivers). 
> > Hopefully I'll meet with success in returning the card.
> > 
> > Annoyingly, only this card and a DLink card (for which drivers were
> > supposed to be released a few months ago but haven't appeared) 
> seem to
> > be locally obtainable (I haven't got a credit card, which makes 
> online> shopping somewhat akward).
> > 
> > David Aikema
> > 
> 
> 
> Can't help with your current Linksys problem, except to agree I 
> have had
> similar problems with the Linksys chipset of the week not matching the
> available drivers.
> 
> However, I notice that you have a shaw.ca domain name, therefore is
> there a London Drugs located near you?  London Drugs may not be the
> first name in computer parts, but if your London Drugs has a computer
> section then they handle Netgear and SMC in addtion to Linksys and
> D-Link.  Netgear works with Linux, I have been told that SMC also
> works.  The Netgear and SMC cost slightly more than the Linksys and
> D-link will typically cost.  I consider this to be acceptable 
> because in
> my personal opinion the Netgear and SMC are business quality products
> whereas the Linksys and D-link are consumer products.  Your opinion 
> mayvary.
> 
> I believe that Future Shop also handles Netgear.
> 
> 
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