[Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Rod Barnhart wrote:
>On 7/24/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>It was an old 802.11b card. I don't recall what chipset, only that it
>wasn't supported natively. I think I was using Fedora 4 at the time,
>and had really good luck with getting the card going using
>ndiswrapper. The point isn't about what the card I was using so much
>as that I had good luck with ndiswrapper then, so Roger should have no
>problems using it under Fedora 6 :)

I'm using it too, on a bcm4318 radio in my lappy.  With the winderz driver it 
logs into my local network just as fast as an ethernet connection.

-- 
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