[Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop

[Brian Blake]

I won't say my Mandriva boxes running the Belkin 54g USB are faster than an ethernet card, but, they far outperform the same PC running WinXP and the Belkin 54g USB.

I'm running Mandriva 2007 on an HP Vectra XE-310 with a stalk of celery in the processor socket and 384mb of RAM. I'm putting a minimum workstation and internet station configuration on them. They've been running great so far. when done, I should have about 13 of them set up, with about six running wireless.


Brian


----- Original Message ----
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:19:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Fedora Core 6 on a M305CRV Gateway laptop


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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