OT: Belkin wireless products

[Andrew Robinson]

What was the router firmware issue?

pctech at mybellybutton.com wrote:
> 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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