wildbill
2004-07-16, 09:18 AM CDT
hello all,
I've littered the internet with posts about trying to get a wireless connection using all sorts of distros of Linux with quite a few wireless cards. I see many of you have, too.
I know most of the time I read the same thing: many people are having a fair amount of trouble, and if it's not the card, it's the wrapper, the distro, the weather, whew! just not worth it.
I'm reporting that I've done probably 60 hours of research on this topic and have tried D link USB, Linksys WMP11 (the intersil chipset works, Broadcom doesn't), and finally, I found one post out of hundreds on the US Robotics 5416 card (http://www.usr.com/products/networking/wireless-product.asp?sku=USR5416) coupled with Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com). Seems to be this combo is a diamond in the rough...
Well, I got the card in the mail today, and I'm posting this from my Fedora 2 distro after about 30 hours of trying other solutions. I just figured I'd try to tell some folks that this card goes right in and works. I did have to update my kernel to the 8stack version (https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-i686.php), but Linuxant even bundles that as an RPM. Just run it and restart. Took me all of 1/2 hour to get this thing fired up. Most of that was waiting for the new kernel to build.
BUY the Linuxant product if you're considering this card. It just makes it so "windows" like, which is what I'm used to. So many people seem to only feel they're truly using open source if they can't get it to work for months and it has to be free...hell, the entire OS is free. It's worth the $20.00 to be typing this from somewhere other than a Windows box...oh, and the cost of the card.
Just thought I'd share a moment of good fortune with everyone. I know there are many of you still running back and forth between your windows box and your linux box trying to take what you read from one and memorize it until you get to the other...
This method seems to be fairly painless.
Cheers,
WB
I've littered the internet with posts about trying to get a wireless connection using all sorts of distros of Linux with quite a few wireless cards. I see many of you have, too.
I know most of the time I read the same thing: many people are having a fair amount of trouble, and if it's not the card, it's the wrapper, the distro, the weather, whew! just not worth it.
I'm reporting that I've done probably 60 hours of research on this topic and have tried D link USB, Linksys WMP11 (the intersil chipset works, Broadcom doesn't), and finally, I found one post out of hundreds on the US Robotics 5416 card (http://www.usr.com/products/networking/wireless-product.asp?sku=USR5416) coupled with Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com). Seems to be this combo is a diamond in the rough...
Well, I got the card in the mail today, and I'm posting this from my Fedora 2 distro after about 30 hours of trying other solutions. I just figured I'd try to tell some folks that this card goes right in and works. I did have to update my kernel to the 8stack version (https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc2-i686.php), but Linuxant even bundles that as an RPM. Just run it and restart. Took me all of 1/2 hour to get this thing fired up. Most of that was waiting for the new kernel to build.
BUY the Linuxant product if you're considering this card. It just makes it so "windows" like, which is what I'm used to. So many people seem to only feel they're truly using open source if they can't get it to work for months and it has to be free...hell, the entire OS is free. It's worth the $20.00 to be typing this from somewhere other than a Windows box...oh, and the cost of the card.
Just thought I'd share a moment of good fortune with everyone. I know there are many of you still running back and forth between your windows box and your linux box trying to take what you read from one and memorize it until you get to the other...
This method seems to be fairly painless.
Cheers,
WB