U.S. Robotics Wireless MAXg PC Card USR805411

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 09:56 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> J.L. Coenders wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone have experience with getting this thing working on FC4 or Linux in 
> > general?
> > Or have any other good recommendations of wireless lan cards to buy which 
> > work?
> > 
> > Help with links explaining wireless networks with Linux are welcome. I have 
> > googled around, but still am a bit in the dark what to install for security, 
> > etc.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jeroen
> > 
> 
> It all comes down to chipset Jeroen.
> 
> You need to find out which chipset your card is. I'd recommend lspci to 
> find out but I don't know whether that works for PC cards?
> 
> There's really two main projects I've worked with in the past: one was 
> mentioned by the other poster - madwifi. This only works with Atheros 
> chip based cards. The other popular one is ndiswrapper. It is a pain to 
> compile, as you will need the source RPMs for the kernel, expand the 
> tree, copy the config file and run make before you can even start with 
> compiling the ndiswrapper.
> 

Way to complex a description for compiling ndiswrapper.

Install kernel-devel and forgo the kernel source and all the other hoops
you describe.  Ndiswrapper will compile and install easily.

> However, it uses NDIS drivers. These drivers ship with most Wifi cards, 
> and indeed, even my weird D-Link G122 USB (Prism Chipset) now works on 
> my old notebook using these drivers.
> 
> When they're set up they work really well.
> 
> There's a list of supported cards and chipsets on the ndiswrapper site.
> 
> P.S. When you find out what chipset your card is, you MAY want to see if 
> there's a native Linux driver available for it first.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.
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