Linksys Wireless Card

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:48:15 PDT 2004


The Broadcomm chipset now has Linux support.

On 06/09/03 18:45, David Aikema wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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