On Wednesday 24 August 2005 15:47, Chris Schumann wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a LinkSys WPC54G, but haven't tried really hard to get it to run > on FC4. Should I give it another go? Is it that easy? I don't have any experience with the WPC54G, but the WMP54G works with ndiswrapper. I can send you some rpms if you have trouble building them. > On a related note, I need a new 802.11G adapter anyway. It has to work in > Linux and Windows. I've been pretty faithful to LinkSys so far, but I'm > not married to the brand. Opine: Should I stick with what I know, or go > for something better, easier, etc.? Do you have an empty MiniPCI slot in your laptop? When I got a new laptop (from someone who used an 802.11b 16-bit PC card), I put a MiniPCI wireless card from a dead linksys router in it, and it has worked like a charm (with ndiswrapper), both in windows and linux. > I would like to avoid buying anything made in a country without reasonably > free and fair elections (like China) if at all possible. Most boards are manufactured in Taiwan; does that count? > I will probably get the new card, my wife will get my WPC54G card, and her > 802.11b card will go in an old beater laptop that will become the MP3 > client. (It's a LinkSys WPC11v3, which works out of the box with FC4, but > is moving to a Slackware system.) > > Thanks, > Chris > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050824/e0771f86/attachment.pgp