[Liverpool] Wireless network cards

[David Watson]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:26 +0000, Paul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Can anyone tell me what is going on, or how to deal with it?  I can understand 
> > the words, but not what is going on.  Why load firmware into the card?
> 
> Grab a copy of linux-wlan-ng, compile it up and read the instructions.
> The prism2 chipset, while good, can be a PITA to get running.
> 

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. :(

-- 
David Watson
david at planetwatson.co.uk
GnuPG key available from http://www.planetwatson.co.uk
Fingerprint: 5FDB B1BE 9B31 D3A8 2981  7285 0DE8 799E A7D6 AE79

"Code is for life, use python"
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/liverpool/attachments/20050210/232510bf/attachment.bin