RE: WiFi

["Gilbert, Joseph" <jgilbert@insuresuite.com>]

Another thing that may be worthy on note on this issue is the results of
some quick research I did.  I have a Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop with a wifi
card, specifically a Broadcom TM1300.

There is no native support for this card under Linux from what I can tell.
However, I found something very interesting.  It appears there is a company
called Linuxant that has a downloadable driver wrapper that basically allows
you to use the windows driver from the manufacturer.  They have a list of
which manufacturers' chipsets they have support for.

http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

I haven't had a chance to work with it yet.  Has anyone else done anything
with this driver wrapper?

Joe


-----Original Message-----
From: Alvin Oga [mailto:aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 9:41 PM
To: Luke Kearney
Cc: Debian Users
Subject: Re: WiFi 



hi ya

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Luke Kearney wrote:

> > what is its chipset ????
> > 	- if you cannot answer that, than you're in for some fun
> 
> AR5001X+

some/most of atheros chips uses the madwifi driver ... but you'd need to
double check that particular chipset

madwifi does NOT support ad-hoc, auto yet
its just starting to support wpa ... lots of dun debugging it 
if you want
but it does work, but NOT as a wpa ap

> > linux AP howto 
> > 	http://linux-wireless.org/AP/#AP
> 
> 'preciate the link. 

the (atheros/madwifi) Drivers is listed too
 
c ya
alvin


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