extract of reply received from my friend is noted below: Dear sir, May be BELKIN has several products. Mine is BELKIN basic and what is marked on the instalation CD is "Windows" X vista and 7. I will try to go wired shortly. Regards, Rao
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Kingsly John <[email protected]>wrote: > +++ Sriranga(78yrsold) [2011-04-13 19:05:49]: > > > Hi all, > > my friend wanted to install ubuntu using Live CD. Before doing he > > wanted to make sure whether Belkin wireless adopter is supported ubuntu > > how to to connect in the ubuntu for which step by step is requested. At > > present my friend > > is using WinxP and wireless adopter is working well -he says. > > Wifi adpaters are not discernable from their brand name alone. Even with > the > same model name/number there is no guarantee that your experience will > mirror > someone else's. Linksys/Netgear/Belkin/D-Link etc. do not make the wireless > chips that go into these adapters. They merely source them from vendors > like > broadcom/atheros/prism etc. So different models from the same vendor will > have very different chips inside and even worse they are known to switch > chip > vendors between different revisions of the same model. > > So a "Netgear Foo 54G Rev.a" might work flawlessly while Rev.b of the same > model > will be a completely different chip/device in the same/similar plastic > shell > and absolutely unusable. > > Kingsly > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Kingsly At Users Dot SourceForge Dot Net -- http://kingsly.org/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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