[Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Rod Barnhart wrote:
>On 7/24/07, Brian Blake <random_rodder at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Roger,
>>
>> I don't have the websites in front of me, but, there are a few 'nix forums
>> that have walk thru instructions on getting the Belkin USB wireless
>> dongles to work with 'nixes using the ndiswrapper and the Windows drivers.
>> I've done this very successfully with Mandriva 2007. The Debian variants
>> were more resisant to the Windows drivers. I have not yet tried Fedora 6.
>> Just do a Google search for 'using Belkin wireless USB in xxxx' (whatever
>> distro you are using).
>>
>> This link may help:
>>
>> http://www.wlanfr.net/contenus.php?id=182
>>
>> Brian
>
>FWIW, I've had good luck with an unsupported Linksys card under Fedora
>using ndiswrapper.

Most linksys cards are using the Atheros chipset, and that is supported by 
native linux drivers quite well.  Its the broadcom radio corp chipsets that 
are the bad boys.

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