[MLB-WIRELESS] 802.11g linux compatible cards.

[Chris Samuel]

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On Monday 05 May 2003 5:58 pm, Jason Leigh Lade wrote:

> Anyway what I'm really interested is if anyone has tried any with Linux
> and if so what where the results.

My understanding is that currently there are *no* 802.11g style cards that 
will work under Linux (or *BSD) as they are all using the Broadcom chipset 
and Broadcom have not released any drivers, or information on how to write a 
driver, to the open source community.

As an extra problem, apparently some 802.11b manufacturers are starting to use 
Broadcom chipsets on their 802.11b cards with no changes to the external 
packaging, so if you happen to pick one of these up by accident and want to 
use it under Linux then you're stuffed. :-(

Check out Google for more information.

Chris
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