[mdlug] Problems with Linksys Wireless card ?

[R. Kannan]

I have a Dell laptop with wireless card based on broadcom chip. It works fine w/ ndiswarpper. BTW, I have SuSE 10.1 on that machine.

David, google for ndiswrapper instructions, understand and follow them. Good Luck.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Jesse J Salens <jjsalens at typotech.net>
>Sent: Sep 25, 2007 11:40 PM
>To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
>Subject: Re: [mdlug] Problems with Linksys Wireless card ?
>
>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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