[ale] Modern-Day Linux Wireless

[Jerald Sheets]

I just downloaded support for the Broadcom 54g from Broadcom's site like
two days ago.  I'm looking forward to digging into it...

--JMS

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Geoffrey
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:05 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Modern-Day Linux Wireless


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> The reason I asked was that my AMD64 laptop has an internal Broadcom 
> BCM94306 802.11g and I had thought that I would have to at least 
> temporarily supplant it with a PCMCIA card to get wireless workign at 
> all.
> 
> It turns out that there *is* some nascent support for that chip, so 
> 2.6 and AMD64 support is probably at least feasible if not a 
> no-brainer.

It appears that it may be supported by the same driver.  There's at 
least a reference to it in the supported cards section, although it's 
noted that only two folks have claimed success.  Then again, no reported

failures.  Check out the list of supported cards:

http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php


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Until later, Geoffrey                     Registered Linux User #108567
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