Linksys or Netgear
Gerry Doris
gdoris at rogers.com
Sun May 2 23:28:40 UTC 2004
On Sun, 2 May 2004, Austin Isler wrote:
> Does anyone on this list recommend a wireless broadband router that they
> found to have the least amount of trouble getting it to work in Linux?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Austin
I haven't really tried to get my Linksys components to work with
Fedora...I've had enough problem just getting them to work with Microsoft!
I bought one Access Point, one PCMCIA card and two PCI cards. The access
point was defective and one of the antennae on the PCI cards was
broken...a 50% failure rate.
These were 54Mb components. Linksys have recnetly announced a new 108MB
set of components but the 54MB parts cannot be upgraded via
microcode (unlike DLink).
The Linksys website says that their PCI cards support WPA. What they
don't say is that it is only under XP. Not only do they not support Linux
they even mislead their Win customers.
While their customer support folks are polite they don't have any
technical knowledge. They promised a call back from their 2nd level
support that never came. I figured out my problem without them.
Bottomline, if you are thinking of wireless DO NOT even consider Linksys.
They don't even pretend to support Linux and do a poor job with Windows.
--
Gerry
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer
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