seeking recommendations for a USB 1.1 Network Adapter for a laptop

[bof]

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 22:25 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>   
>> On Thu, Jun 01, 2006, bof wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am seeking recommendations for a USB 1.1 Network Adapter for a laptop 
>>> (its USB ports are 1.1 only) and wondered if anyone could make 
>>> suggestions as to which work under Linux. I'm currently running FC5 and 
>>> completely unable to get the Broadcom 4318 chip build into the system to 
>>> work, having tried both ndiswrapper and the native Broadcom bcm43xx drivers.
>>>       
>> I've been using a WUSB12 LinkSys USB wireless adapter for several
>> years now on various flavours of SuSE Linux.
>>     
>
> Stay away from the LinkSys WUSB54G. The Linux driver has been removed
> from many distros because it it very unstable. And it simply does not
> work in an SMP setting (like a Dual Core found in many new laptops).
> SUSE say there is work on a replacement driver, but it is net ready.
>
> Too bad because I have one in a box that will stay packed a bit more.
>   

It would appear the the WSUB12 is out of production, altho there is 
still a WUSB11 available, which some sites say may work if one can find it.

BOF