Linksys Wireless Card

[David Aikema]

On Monday, June 9, 2003, at 06:44  AM, Net Llama! wrote:

Linksys had switched chipsets before while still leaving the same model  
number (just bumping up the version number a notch).  I've got  a  
useless WMP11 at home for that very reason.

David Aikema

> there's conflicting stories:
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF- 
> 8&threadm=b71suf%24hvp%241%40localhost.localdomain&rnum=1&prev=/ 
> groups%3Fas_q%3DWMP54G%26safe%3Dimages%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF- 
> 8%26as_ugroup%3D*linux*%26lr%3Dlang_en%26num%3D50%26hl%3Den
>
> and then others seem to think this thing uses a Broadcomm chipset:
> http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/i8500/
>
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Allan Rabenau wrote:
>
>> I have a LinksysWMP54G wireless card in an HP Vectra dual boot  
>> machine.
>> Under XP, all is fine, but using RedHat 9, I can't get the card to  
>> work.  It
>> isn't even seen at boot time.  I emailed Linksys Support and, sure  
>> enough,
>> they came back and said "Linksys hasn't released a driver for Linux  
>> yet".
>> Does anyone know of any way or any other driver which will handle  
>> this card?
>> Al
>> ahr1 at comcast.net