RE: WPC54G and Fedora

From: Javier Perez (pepebuho_at_pananet.com)
Date: 09/16/04

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    To: "Jon Savage" <jonathansavage@gmail.com>, "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:28:10 -0500

    I just installed a WPC54G v4 last night on my FC2 machine.
    I am using Kernel 2.6.8-1.521 and downloaded kernel-sourcecode

    I used ndiswrapper-0.10

    I downloaded the Linksys driver for XP. there are two
    drivers in there, one for the Broadcom chip, the other
    for a int220p (or something like that) chip.

    I used the Broadcom BCM4306 chip driver. The PC ID for my card was
    14E4:4320

    The system recognizes the card and loads the driver perfect. I still
    have to test it with a hotspot to see how well it work, I am installing
    an AP at home tomorrow, so I will let you know, but I do not expect
    any problem. All systems were go and software behaved as expected according
    to the WIKI.

    Javier

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    [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jon Savage
    Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 1:34 AM
    To: linuxlist@beris.net; For users of Fedora Core releases
    Subject: Re: WPC54G and Fedora

    On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:13:19 -0700, Beri, Rohit <linuxlist@beris.net> wrote:
    > There's got to be a simpler way to get WPC11 v4 working... after getting
    > all code and running the compile... and loading winxp drivers from
    > linksys.com... I am still unable to get the card working....
    >
    > any other suggestions please....
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > -B
    I used the realtek drivers linked to from the ndiswrapper page, those
    worked fine for me. Neither the drivers on the linksys CD nor the
    drivers from linksys web page worked *in any way shape or form(TM)*
    for me.

    As an aside I misgoogled on the WPC11 card before I bought the NICs,
    somehow I missed the bit re: ver 4 does not work (natively) in linux.
    The earlier versions were well supported under linux, why I bought the
    card in the first place...
    I ran them using ndiswapper for about 10 days (flawlwssly) until the
    ver 3 cards arrived from linksys- they will swap ver 4 for ver 3 for
    free although it may take a few (7 in my case) phone calls to get that
    accomplished.
    The v. 3 cards 'just work', and are supported natively in linux.

    Bests

    Jon 

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