OT: Belkin wireless products

[pctech at mybellybutton.com]

I wouldn't use Belkin wireless products on a dare
after their whole router firmware issue.

--- David Hobley <davidh at sharpblue.org> wrote:
> 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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