802.11g under Mandrake 10.1...

Has anybody had any luck working wirelessly with a USB adapter under Mandrake Linux (or, more spefically, any Linux distribution with a Netgear WG121 USB adapter).

On a dual boot machine, the wireless adapter works fine under Windows XP Home SP2.

On the same machine, I have had success using a Linuxant Prism 54 chipset driver, which changed the status of the the adapter from unpowered and not communicating with the network to powered and transferring data (based on the 2 LEDs on the adapter).

During this process, the Linux side also promoted for and located the exisitng Windows drivers.

The adapter clearly seems to think it's connected to the router...but Mandrake hasn't got the word yet. No answer to this question after a week on their forums....

Reply to
ropeyarn
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Indeed. And the *nix advocates wonder why Windows has 90% of the OS market. It's all about hardware:-)

Dean

Reply to
ropeyarn

The drivers needed to support USB wireless adapters are very recent, or still in development. You need to find out exactly which chipset is in this USB adapter and then research the state of the relevant USB driver.

David

Reply to
David Goodenough

Search the chipset on souceforge.net is it a G or a B ?

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atec

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