seeking recommendations for a USB 1.1 Network Adapter for a laptop: SOLVED

[bof]

Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> bof schrieb:
>> 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.
> What about another chance for the Broadcom Linux driver - there have 
> been recent reports of success (including my own with the 4318 chip on 
> an ibook g4):
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/fedora-ppc/2006-March/000804.html 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186329

Thanx to all those who replied.

I tried and tried again with the methods listed in the HOWTO but was 
never able to get anything to work.  I installed fwcutter (with yum, no 
less!) and when it installed it was apparently version 4. Of the 12 or 
so driver files I tried of the ones listed in the README file, I could 
not find one that could be used because the MD5 sums of the driver did 
not agree with the ones fwcutter was expecting when it extracted the 
file. The message that I sent to David Woodhouse about this went 
unanswered, and I finally gave up.

I was able to get things working with ndiswrapper, although not without 
some difficulty.  But the built-in NIC is up and working now.

BOF