Wireless card driver for Linux

[Akshat Trivedi]

Hi,

I am not certain whether this is the right group to ask this question.
Apologies in advance.

I bought a Compaq 3045 US Laptop and it has an integrated wireless
card. I have installed Linux (Redhat 9.0) on the Laptop but it does
not detect the
Wireless card. All I know about the wireless card is that it is a
Linksys 54g card. Compaq customer support has been of no help and all
attempts to contact Linksys have failed.

Is there someway I can detect the Wireless card. I also need the
driver for the same. I would appreciate any comments.

Thanks,
Akshat Trivedi

<akshat.trivedi@columbia.edu>
[url]http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~akshat[/url]

[Liam Cunningham]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:04:57 -0700, Akshat Trivedi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not certain whether this is the right group to ask this question.
> Apologies in advance.
>
> I bought a Compaq 3045 US Laptop and it has an integrated wireless
> card. I have installed Linux (Redhat 9.0) on the Laptop but it does
> not detect the
> Wireless card. All I know about the wireless card is that it is a
> Linksys 54g card. Compaq customer support has been of no help and all
> attempts to contact Linksys have failed.
>
> Is there someway I can detect the Wireless card. I also need the
> driver for the same. I would appreciate any comments.
>
> Thanks,
> Akshat Trivedi
>
> <akshat.trivedi@columbia.edu>
> [url]http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~akshat[/url]

A quick search on google showed that the the Linksys 54g card uses a
Broadcom chipset. Broadcom has not released specs to the Linux developers,
so no driver. However, there appears to be some support for loading the
windows driver under linux and using the card that way. Try
[url]http://www.linuxant.com[/url] for more information. Google is also a good
resource.

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[Uli Link]

> I bought a Compaq 3045 US Laptop and it has an integrated wireless
> card. I have installed Linux (Redhat 9.0) on the Laptop but it does
> not detect the
> Wireless card. All I know about the wireless card is that it is a
> Linksys 54g card. Compaq customer support has been of no help and all
> attempts to contact Linksys have failed.

If you want troublefree WLAN with Linux go for a Cisco card, second but
still a good choice are the Agere (former Lucent) cards.

> Is there someway I can detect the Wireless card. I also need the
> driver for the same. I would appreciate any comments.

I'm sure Linux can _detect_ this card. Loading a working driver is
another problem ;-)

Google is your friend.


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