John Haxby wrote: > Ionut.Rusu.Boca@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> >> :-) >> before going to purchase all wireless cards available on the market, >> here is what i've done with my linksys wireless card ( wireless g >> one ) >> >> i went to http://www.linuxant.com and i got their driver which i >> installed it as they suggested. and it worked !! >> >> you can download a 30 day evaluation license ; the permanent license >> costs almost US$20. >> >> > The linuxant driver is good and it works, but > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper is a bit cheaper and it > works fine with my broadcomm wireless thingy. I just wish > the wireless manufacturers would release the specs of their devices > so we could have proper Linux drivers. On possible problem with > the ndis-wrapper drivers (linuxant and ndiswrapper) is that NT has > a kernel stack size of 12k whereas Linux uses 8k and a stack > overflow in the NDIS drivers could have serious consequences. > I don't think this is the only problem though -- but when it works > it's fine, it means I can sit here without having to have a dirty > great wire trailing over the floor. I just wanted to echo my success with using the ndiswrapper driver with my linksys/broadcom based wireless adapter (wmp54g). I have had zero problems while using this driver. Plus the price is right (free!). Steve Cowles -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
