Linksys wireless card isn't working...

pbjorge12 · 06-18-2004, 11:06 AM

I have a linksys WPC54GS wireless card and I can't seem to get it to run on Mandrake Linux 10.0. I have tried finding Linux drivers to no avail. Any help would be appreciated but I'm kinda a noob so simple terms please. Also a little bit offtopic is their a way to add space to my linux partition without screwing up everything. Thanks

motaguense · 06-18-2004, 04:07 PM

I am a bit of a newbie myself, but I have been doing some research lately. Your card is based on the Broadcom chipset, which apparently has no drivers for linux. There is a solution where you can use Windows drivers, but you need to use a wrapper some people have written called ndiswrapper. you can find it at
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

There is also another wrapper but you need to purchase it
http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/

This is another good page for you if you have not been here already
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

hope it helps