[Liverpool] Wireless network cards

[tony burrows]

David Watson wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 21:20 +0000, tony burrows wrote:
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>>David Watson wrote:
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>>>Probably not as bad as the new Buffalo cards ( Broadcom chipset ).  I
>>>had to use Ndiswrapper to get it to work.  Just making my life difficult
>>>for myself really.  I installed my new workstation motherboard today to
>>>find it also uses broadcom for the nic. :(
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>>Odd, since according to Broadcom, there is an embedded linux driver in 
>>the chipset.  I've got a broadcom nic in the laptop motherboard and it 
>>works fine, using a linux driver I downloaded from the Broadcom site.
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>>Tony
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>Didn't work for the buffalo card, I have yet to try it on the new
>workstation.
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I tried the linux-wlan-ng code, compiled but was a bit of a PITA (as 
predicted).  In fact, I also have a card with the Ralink chipset (Asus, 
el cheapo at a computer fair).  The company had a linux driver which it 
open sourced, and there's a Ralink project now.  Code compiled like a 
dream, installed beutifully and comes with its own config utility as 
well as some iwpref settings.  Unlike wlan-ng, 54mbps is standard, so 
I'm using that one now.  Seems stable (so far).

Tony