OT: Belkin wireless products

David Hobley davidh at sharpblue.org
Mon Feb 2 07:09:49 UTC 2004


I have the PCI card working with the ndiswrapper under Mandrake (and realising 
my mistake with Mandrake now trying to configure it with Fedora).

I have had no problems with it at all.

Cheers,
david

On Monday 02 February 2004 17:58, Michael Kearey wrote:
> Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > In today's Sunday newspaper, Office Max is advertising some very good
> > rebate deals on Belkin 802.11g wireless products. (Actually they say
> > 54G. Is there a difference?) I was looking at the wireless router and
> > the wireless notebook card. The PC card would go in a Dell Latittude
> > laptop that mostly runs Windows 2000, but on which I also run Linux
> > (Redhat 9 currently, though I plan to update to Fedora Core 1). I know
> > very little about the relative merits of different vendors' wireless
> > products. So I was hoping to get some opinions from folks on this list.
> >
> > Is the Belkin router and adapter worth having? Will the laptop adapter
> > work with Linux? Any thing else I should know about them?
>
> I have a Belkin PCI card adapter , according to the box '54g' and
> 802.11b compatible. It's a ' Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
> BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)' for which there are no working drivers in
> Linux. HOWEVER....
>
> I managed to get it to work using the gadget available at
> www.linuxant.com, if you feel like paying a few dollars ($19 US).
>
> There is also a project that does the ndiswrapper.
> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ that may get it working after a
> bit of a fiddle. I haven't tried yet, and didn't know about it until
> after I'd got the driver from linuxant :/
>
> The thing I like about Belkin is the 'Life time warranty' if that's
> any help to you . The thing I really dislike is that they don't have
> GPL Linux drivers available..
>
> Cheers,
> Michael






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