belkin wireless g+ desktop card support?

jack wallen jlwallen at monkeypantz.net
Sun Jan 29 22:14:27 UTC 2006


On Sunday January 29 2006 3:59 pm, Neil Cherry wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 Jan 2006 23:19, John Summerfied wrote:
> >> broadcom is a great brand to avoid. Last Great Step Forward I head
> >> from the broadcom reverse-engineers that they had fully documented
> >> the interfaces and were ready to begin the Next Great Step. I got the
> >> impression usable code was some way off.
> >
> > My Acer laptop has a Broadcom wireless connection, using ipw2200.  It
> > works out-of-the-box with Mandriva.  I haven't tried it with FC4 yet,
> > but I see no reason why not.
>
> If your using the ipw2200 then you've got an Intel mini-PCI card
> in your Acer. My laptop has a broadcom chip (can't use the ipw2200
> care because it's an AMD, grr) and I have to use ndiswrapper. I may
> try the reverse engineered driver later when I have more time.
>
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the machine i'm working on is a desktop - not a laptop. so this seems to limit 
the number of cards that are supported.

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jack wallen, jr.
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