[TriLUG] Desktop Wireless setup

[Dave Sorenson]

I have a Compaq Laptop with built-in Broadcom wifi. I use the Linuxant 
driverloader and can say it works well for me. I had problems with the 
NDISwrapper so after I did a trial of the Driverloader and found that it 
just plain worked, I ended up shelling out the $19 bucks. Install is 
easy, just figure our your kernel version, d/l the approprite version 
and follow the instructions. You need to have you windows drivers 
available and may need to get an earlier driver for your chipset to get 
things working properly. I have built from source, and have used the 
RPM's on Fedora Core 2 and just this past weekend Fedora Core 3. Only 
complaint is that if you upgrade your kernel you need to uninstall and 
reinstall the proper version and Kwifimanager just won't work with it.

Daniel Zhang wrote:

> You need a wireless card driver  working for RHAS3.0. There is an open 
> source ndiswrapper(http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/) and 
> trial-and-buy DriverLoader from 
> LinuxAnt(http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/).
>
> Overall, configuring these drivers is not as easy as you do for windows.
>
> Daniel Z.
> Mark Fowle wrote:
>
>> I have a Belkin wireless desktop card and am trying to get it to run 
>> on RHAS3.0 server as a test --  Has anyone got a desktop wireless to 
>> work - I can't find much info about it..
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
>