[Liverpool] Wireless network cards

[tony burrows]

David Watson wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 19:26 +0000, Paul wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>>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?
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>>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.
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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.

Tony