Many wireless card doesn't support Linux?

strutsng · 2005-09-27T17:03:18+00:00

I am using Linksys wireless card, but it seems only support in windows.Becausethe CD says only for windows. How about Linux? I have Red Hat Linux 9andwant to connect to the internet via wireless.any advices? thanks!!

Sep 27, 2005 26 Replies

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Uncle Chuck 20 years ago

Naw, don't do anything rash.

Well, boil me in oil and call me a hush puppy. 802.11g? That's excellent!

If you're not joshing, thanks for setting me straight. Spank IBM, Novell, and RedHat for their evil lies - maybe it's a PPC vs. x86 arch issue? Any chance you installed a driver on the side, and it wasn't bundled with the kernel?

FWIW, it's not my opinion, its what Torvalds, Morton, et. al., consider mainstream and release. That is, the kernel.org kernels are "mainstream" kernels, as opposed to Alan Cox's patched "AC kernels", and 2 dot even are release kernels.

Alternative kernels frequently have unique features, like hardware support or iptables integration. Hence, my caveat that support might not be out of the box.

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yechun.yan 20 years ago

node, ndiswrapper really cool tool.

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Derek Broughton 20 years ago

Then where do you get your ideas? 2.6.13.2 is (or at least, was yesterday) the latest _stable_ kernel release. afaik, all versions of 2.6 have supported 802.11g, at least on some cards. It all depends on the driver developers.

You didn't say that. You said there was _no_ support in the mainstream kernel.

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frankdowling1 20 years ago

There seems to be a 30 day trial version of Wireless LAN DriverLoader as well as the paid version:

Wireless LAN devices

Quantity Description Price per unit (US$) Wireless LAN DriverLoader 30-day trial license FREE TRIAL Wireless LAN DriverLoader permanent license Buy One $ 19.95

Derek Brought> If you're going to continue an argument, at least be well enough behaved not

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apngss 20 years ago

I am using Red Hat LInux 9 and Linksys WUSB54GS wireless adapter, so I need to install special driver to talk to the adapter? The CD of the adapter only supports Windows.

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