Linksys 54G PCMCIA Broadcom Chipset

Hello,

Has anyone got the Linksys 54G PCMCIA Broadcom chipset wireless card
working under linux?

Robbie Castro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone got the Linksys 54G PCMCIA Broadcom chipset wireless card
> working under linux?

There are a couple of ways to do this:

Go to http://www.linuxant.com and purchase a software (driver) for
using the windows driver under linux. I think its about twenty bucks
for the license.

Go to sourceforge.net and download and compile the NDIS wrapper software
for using your windoz driver under linux. Or you can use the NDIS
wrapper found there by building an RPM using your rpmbuild utility.

Another option is to simply buy another WiFi card for use under
http://wGNU/Linux. At many places on the net (like
http://www.pricewatch.com/lf211.htm), you can buy .11b cards for as
little as ten bucks each new. Use this matrix
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz for selecting one
that you decide upon, and check to see if it has Linux support, by
checking the card's chipset to see if it has linux support by the
manufacturer. You can check that here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_.../Wireless.html


While your card is a very nice one, for ten or fifteen bucks you can buy
one for use in linux which has drivers available already, and an added
side bonus is that many of these older cards (.11b) have considerably
more output power than the newer cards. For these prices, these older
cards are really disposable if need be......:-)

Robbie Castro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone got the Linksys 54G PCMCIA Broadcom chipset wireless card
> working under linux?

There are a couple of ways to do this:

Go to http://www.linuxant.com and purchase a software (driver) for
using the windows driver under linux. I think its about twenty bucks
for the license.

Go to sourceforge.net and download and compile the NDIS wrapper software
for using your windoz driver under linux. Or you can use the NDIS
wrapper found there by building an RPM using your rpmbuild utility.

Another option is to simply buy another WiFi card for use under
http://wGNU/Linux. At many places on the net (like
http://www.pricewatch.com/lf211.htm), you can buy .11b cards for as
little as ten bucks each new. Use this matrix
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz for selecting one
that you decide upon, and check to see if it has Linux support, by
checking the card's chipset to see if it has linux support by the
manufacturer. You can check that here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_.../Wireless.html


While your card is a very nice one, for ten or fifteen bucks you can buy
one for use in linux which has drivers available already, and an added
side bonus is that many of these older cards (.11b) have considerably
more output power than the newer cards. For these prices, these older
cards are really disposable if need be......:-)

Robbie Castro wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Has anyone got the Linksys 54G PCMCIA Broadcom chipset wireless card
> working under linux?

There are a couple of ways to do this:

Go to http://www.linuxant.com and purchase a software (driver) for
using the windows driver under linux. I think its about twenty bucks
for the license.

Go to sourceforge.net and download and compile the NDIS wrapper software
for using your windoz driver under linux. Or you can use the NDIS
wrapper found there by building an RPM using your rpmbuild utility.

Another option is to simply buy another WiFi card for use under
http://wGNU/Linux. At many places on the net (like
http://www.pricewatch.com/lf211.htm), you can buy .11b cards for as
little as ten bucks each new. Use this matrix
http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz for selecting one
that you decide upon, and check to see if it has Linux support, by
checking the card's chipset to see if it has linux support by the
manufacturer. You can check that here:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_.../Wireless.html


While your card is a very nice one, for ten or fifteen bucks you can buy
one for use in linux which has drivers available already, and an added
side bonus is that many of these older cards (.11b) have considerably
more output power than the newer cards. For these prices, these older
cards are really disposable if need be......:-)