Thanks for the suggestions. There is a London Drugs about 5 minutes down the road from here. IIRC, they may have had a few Netgear and/or SMC products, but they online stocked the usb and pcmcia products. My linux server doesn't have any usb ports, although I believe it would be possible to pickup an adaptor card. Perhaps I may be able to special order something.
Maybe what I should be doing is just hucking another ethernet card into the machine and hooking that up to a wireless router. That way David Aikema ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph Sanford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:59 am Subject: Re: Linksys warning > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After the comments on the list and seeing that the suport section of > > linksys's website listed a linux driver package for the card, I went > > out today and purchased a Linksys WMP11 (802.11b wireless pci card). > > > > Upon inserting it into my machine, I discovered that I had > basically a > > different card then the support section of the linksys website > > indicated. This card (version 2.7) now has a broadcom chipset, for > > which linux support seems nonexistant at this point. > > > > I just fired off a somewhat angry email to the company (I had a bad > > experience with one of their ethernet adaptors a couple of years > back,> which listed linux support on the box but refused to work > with the > > drivers included on disc in the box or any other available > drivers). > > Hopefully I'll meet with success in returning the card. > > > > Annoyingly, only this card and a DLink card (for which drivers were > > supposed to be released a few months ago but haven't appeared) > seem to > > be locally obtainable (I haven't got a credit card, which makes > online> shopping somewhat akward). > > > > David Aikema > > > > > Can't help with your current Linksys problem, except to agree I > have had > similar problems with the Linksys chipset of the week not matching the > available drivers. > > However, I notice that you have a shaw.ca domain name, therefore is > there a London Drugs located near you? London Drugs may not be the > first name in computer parts, but if your London Drugs has a computer > section then they handle Netgear and SMC in addtion to Linksys and > D-Link. Netgear works with Linux, I have been told that SMC also > works. The Netgear and SMC cost slightly more than the Linksys and > D-link will typically cost. I consider this to be acceptable > because in > my personal opinion the Netgear and SMC are business quality products > whereas the Linksys and D-link are consumer products. Your opinion > mayvary. > > I believe that Future Shop also handles Netgear. > > > -- > Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - should you trust your government? > > DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux- > sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
