802.11g under Mandrake 10.1...

Has anybody had any luck working wirelessly with a USB adapter under
Mandrake Linux (or, more spefically, any Linux distribution with a
Netgear WG121 USB adapter).

On a dual boot machine, the wireless adapter works fine under Windows
XP Home SP2.

On the same machine, I have had success using a Linuxant Prism 54
chipset driver, which changed the status of the the adapter from
unpowered and not communicating with the network to powered and
transferring data (based on the 2 LEDs on the adapter).

During this process, the Linux side also promoted for and located the
exisitng Windows drivers.

The adapter clearly seems to think it's connected to the router...but
Mandrake hasn't got the word yet. No answer to this question after a
week on their forums....

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Has anybody had any luck working wirelessly with a USB adapter under
> Mandrake Linux (or, more spefically, any Linux distribution with a
> Netgear WG121 USB adapter).
>
> On a dual boot machine, the wireless adapter works fine under Windows
> XP Home SP2.
>
> On the same machine, I have had success using a Linuxant Prism 54
> chipset driver, which changed the status of the the adapter from
> unpowered and not communicating with the network to powered and
> transferring data (based on the 2 LEDs on the adapter).
>
> During this process, the Linux side also promoted for and located the
> exisitng Windows drivers.
>
> The adapter clearly seems to think it's connected to the router...but
> Mandrake hasn't got the word yet. No answer to this question after a
> week on their forums....

The drivers needed to support USB wireless adapters are very recent, or
still in development. You need to find out exactly which chipset is
in this USB adapter and then research the state of the relevant USB
driver.

David

David Goodenough wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>
>>Has anybody had any luck working wirelessly with a USB adapter under
>>Mandrake Linux (or, more spefically, any Linux distribution with a
>>Netgear WG121 USB adapter).
>>
>>On a dual boot machine, the wireless adapter works fine under Windows
>>XP Home SP2.
>>
>>On the same machine, I have had success using a Linuxant Prism 54
>>chipset driver, which changed the status of the the adapter from
>>unpowered and not communicating with the network to powered and
>>transferring data (based on the 2 LEDs on the adapter).
>>
>>During this process, the Linux side also promoted for and located the
>>exisitng Windows drivers.
>>
>>The adapter clearly seems to think it's connected to the router...but
>>Mandrake hasn't got the word yet. No answer to this question after a
>>week on their forums....
>
>
> The drivers needed to support USB wireless adapters are very recent, or
> still in development. You need to find out exactly which chipset is
> in this USB adapter and then research the state of the relevant USB
> driver.
>
> David


Indeed. And the *nix advocates wonder why Windows has 90% of the OS
market. It's all about hardware:-)


Dean

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Has anybody had any luck working wirelessly with a USB adapter under
> Mandrake Linux (or, more spefically, any Linux distribution with a
> Netgear WG121 USB adapter).
>
> On a dual boot machine, the wireless adapter works fine under Windows
> XP Home SP2.
>
> On the same machine, I have had success using a Linuxant Prism 54
> chipset driver, which changed the status of the the adapter from
> unpowered and not communicating with the network to powered and
> transferring data (based on the 2 LEDs on the adapter).
>
> During this process, the Linux side also promoted for and located the
> exisitng Windows drivers.
>
> The adapter clearly seems to think it's connected to the router...but
> Mandrake hasn't got the word yet. No answer to this question after a
> week on their forums....
Search the chipset on souceforge.net is it a G or a B ?