Re: Linux newbie needs some help...

From: Patrick Grimbergen (patrick_at_grimweb.info)
Date: 09/10/05 

Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:37:31 +0200

slackhead wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:42:31 +0000, M put forth the proposition:
>
>> Just out of curiosity do the likes of Linksys, Netgear et al just tend
>> create windows drivers and not bother providing linux ones?
>>
>> M
>
> I have a netgear card and it was detected out of the box. Although lspci
> lists it as National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter)
> Ethernet Controller
> Uses Natsemi module.
>
Linksys uses a Prism Chip set. Prism states about this chipset " several
comapies have used this chipset for purposes not intended by us" or
something like that.. see http://www.prism54.org

So it is not the chipset producer that is at fould here, but the producer of
the wireless card that just buys some chips for something they are not
intended for... SMC got the same problem... 

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