Linksys has used thee chips (that I am aware of) in their cards. If your
box actually has the Cisco logo on it, then that eliminates the oldest of
the chipsets. The two remaining are Prism2 (Linksys version 2.5 and 2.6,
I think) and Broadcom (Linksys version 2.6).

Getting the Prism2 card to work is pretty easy. Just check out
www.linux-wlan.org. The wlan-ng is the package you're looking for, which
appears to be available in the portage tree.

If you have the Broadcom chip, then your mileage may vary. Linksys used
to support Linux, but now that Cisco owns them, I wouldn't bet on it.
Cisco's support for Linux is rather hit or miss. Sometimes they jump on
board (ie when they first released their TACACS source code), other times
they don't. So we may or may not see "official" drivers in the future.
But in the meantime, you might want to look at www.linuxant.com. I have
the 802.11g version of the Broadcom chip in my laptop and the
driverloader "middleware" from linuxant.com is working for me.

Best Regards,
Roy

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> Hi,
>
> I have a new PCMCIA card Cisco Linksys, i'm going to switch between my
> Lucent wireless and  Cisco.
> Must i just put a new entry in my /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts, ore are
> there other options?
>
> TIA
> Patrick
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