WMP54G & Linux

I have a HP Vectra with the above card installed. It works fine under XP.
I have just installed RedHat 9 in a dual-boot configuration and wish to
configure the card under Linux. I am running Comcast broadband with DHCP.
I have a Wireless-G Boadband router with two computers connected through
the ethernet ports on the back - one running XP and the other in dual-boot,
XP/Linux; the machine in question is the only wireless connection Can you
help?
Allan Rabenau
2 Woodland Circle
Downingtown PA 19335-3347
(610)269-7153
FAX: (610)873-1702
email: (E-Mail Removed)

If the card contains a Broadcom chipset (and I believe it does) you're out
of luck. Only a few 802.11g cards are supported on Linux at this time.

Erik

It has a Broadcom chipset, you are out of luck. So far, Linksys has not
supported Broadcom chips for Linux. The worst part about this is that the
freaking access points are reputed to have Linux in them.

I am not sure what is going on with Linksys and Broadcom but I will not buy
either product again until a Linux driver is available.

Dave

"A. Rabenau" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a HP Vectra with the above card installed. It works fine under XP.
> I have just installed RedHat 9 in a dual-boot configuration and wish to
> configure the card under Linux. I am running Comcast broadband with DHCP.
> I have a Wireless-G Boadband router with two computers connected through
> the ethernet ports on the back - one running XP and the other in
dual-boot,
> XP/Linux; the machine in question is the only wireless connection Can you
> help?
> Allan Rabenau
> 2 Woodland Circle
> Downingtown PA 19335-3347
> (610)269-7153
> FAX: (610)873-1702
> email: (E-Mail Removed)
>

Dave wrote:
> It has a Broadcom chipset, you are out of luck. So far, Linksys has
> not supported Broadcom chips for Linux. The worst part about this is
> that the freaking access points are reputed to have Linux in them.
>
> I am not sure what is going on with Linksys and Broadcom but I will
> not buy either product again until a Linux driver is available.
>
> Dave
>
I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that has Linux inside - nmap guessed
Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20

My WRT54G also works with Linux and Windows 2000 concurrently.

"Keith Roberts" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bgjsck$nr0$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Dave wrote:
> > It has a Broadcom chipset, you are out of luck. So far, Linksys has
> > not supported Broadcom chips for Linux. The worst part about this is
> > that the freaking access points are reputed to have Linux in them.
> >
> > I am not sure what is going on with Linksys and Broadcom but I will
> > not buy either product again until a Linux driver is available.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that has Linux inside - nmap
guessed
> Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20
>
>

Yes so does mine - I was trying to say that the WRT54G seems to be running
Linux

flash wrote:
> My WRT54G also works with Linux and Windows 2000 concurrently.
>
> "Keith Roberts" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:bgjsck$nr0$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Dave wrote:
>>> It has a Broadcom chipset, you are out of luck. So far, Linksys has
>>> not supported Broadcom chips for Linux. The worst part about this
>>> is that the freaking access points are reputed to have Linux in
>>> them.
>>>
>>> I am not sure what is going on with Linksys and Broadcom but I will
>>> not buy either product again until a Linux driver is available.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>> I have a Linksys WRT54G wireless router that has Linux inside - nmap
>> guessed Linux Kernel 2.4.0 - 2.5.20

In article <bgrnpm$f26$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Keith Roberts <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Yes so does mine - I was trying to say that the WRT54G seems to be running
>Linux
>

See :

http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g

Jim


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Thanks that is very informative - now to have some fun

Jim Buzbee wrote:
> In article <bgrnpm$f26$(E-Mail Removed)>,
> Keith Roberts <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Yes so does mine - I was trying to say that the WRT54G seems to be
>> running Linux
>>
>
> See :
>
> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g
>
> Jim

In article <bgs291$jri$(E-Mail Removed)>,
Keith Roberts <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>Thanks that is very informative - now to have some fun
>

That's what I'm doing :-)

Jim



>Jim Buzbee wrote:
>> In article <bgrnpm$f26$(E-Mail Removed)>,
>> Keith Roberts <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> Yes so does mine - I was trying to say that the WRT54G seems to be
>>> running Linux
>>>
>>
>> See :
>>
>> http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g
>>
>> Jim
>
>


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Jim Buzbee "I was gratified to be able to
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http://batbox.org said I didn't know." Mark Twain

"A. Rabenau" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> I have a HP Vectra with the above card installed. It works fine under XP.
> I have just installed RedHat 9 in a dual-boot configuration and wish to
> configure the card under Linux. I am running Comcast broadband with DHCP.
> I have a Wireless-G Boadband router with two computers connected through
> the ethernet ports on the back - one running XP and the other in dual-boot,
> XP/Linux; the machine in question is the only wireless connection Can you
> help?
> Allan Rabenau
> 2 Woodland Circle
> Downingtown PA 19335-3347
> (610)269-7153
> FAX: (610)873-1702
> email: (E-Mail Removed)

I am having a similar problem with my linux router. I have a box
running e-smith set up as an SME router (server/gateway) with a
wireless-g pci card that I can hopefully get set up to broadcast to
the rest of my network. I am not sure where to get a driver to
install in e-smith to support this particular card. I know that
e-smith operates with a kernel that spawned from Redhat linux, so any
help locating a driver for the redhat kernel, or any information
regarding this issue would be a great help.

Thanks,

Ryan