[mdlug] Problems with Linksys Wireless card ?

Jesse J Salens jjsalens at typotech.net
Tue Sep 25 23:40:24 EDT 2007


Peter Bart wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:19:48 -0700 (PDT)
> David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I just got a Lynksys wireless card and Suse 10.1 is not working with
>> it.
>>
>> What can I do?
>>     
>
> David,
> 	Your Linksys card may contain a Broadcom chip. These are
> notoriouly difficult to get working with Linux. IIRC it involves
> configuring ndiswrapper. Check the Suse message boards for specifics.
>
> Good Luck,
>
>   
You can also check http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ to see which chipset is 
in your card.

I've never had luck with the broadcom chipsets and ndiswrapper has never 
played nicely.



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