[MLB-WIRELESS] 802.11g linux compatible cards.

[Jason Leigh Lade]

Hi Paul,

Here is an excert from contact I have had with netgear regarding there
802.11g products and linux compatibility.

Dear Jason,

Thank you for contacting Netgear Support. My name is Tristan & Ian has asked me to will be handle your query. 

At this point in time we do not have linux drivers for the WG511 (you won't need linux drivers for the WG602). However, we may release linux drivers at a later stage (as with most our products). Unfortunately I don't know when these drivers will be released, but I have added your email address to a list of people to be emailed when there is a new firmware update (although I cannot ensure promise it will support linux). 

I figure if i contact and others contact then they might get the idea
that it is really quite important that they help in making drivers
available to such a large volume of customers who mind you are most
likely to try out these types of products first.


paul van den bergen wrote:

>Given the extent of the FreeBSD communitee, I have no doubt that appropriately 
>hacked drivers are available somewhere - It would be well worth searching 
>some of the BSD forums... - e.g. freebsd.org is a good starting point - has a 
>list of lots of user forums etc.
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>On Tue, 6 May 2003 04:32 pm, Nick Sibbing wrote:
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>>Chris Samuel wrote:
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>>>My understanding is that currently there are *no* 802.11g style cards
>>>that will work under Linux (or *BSD) as they are all using the Broadcom
>>>chipset and Broadcom have not released any drivers, or information on how
>>>to write a driver, to the open source community.
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>>Just a thought but Apple have backed 802.11g stuff in a big way for
>>their new airport extreme stuff
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>>OSX is all unix underneath these days and they have committed to the
>>open source model so perhaps research at
>>http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/resources.html
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>>Might find a driver for this chip? They have both mac and X86 versions
>>of the core os. Someone who is clever both with macs and matters *nix eg
>>Mr Clae or Mr Borthwick would be good to ask.
>>
>>Regards Nick Sibbing
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