Where To Find Linux 802.11g Support Resources?

Posted by timothy on Saturday March 1, 2003 @04:21PM from the chicken-and-egg-problem dept.

Matey-O writes "I just purchased a Linksys firewall/switch router (WAP54g) and two of their 802.11g cards for home use. Like MANY things linux, I found out after the fact that Linksys' 54g products use a different chipset (broadcom) rather than the intersil Prism chipsets of their linux supported 11b products. So my _main_ question is: does anybody know if/when the broadcom chipset will be supported? Google wasn't very helpful, it came up with an online petition to another Broadcom product, but neither Broadcom, not Linksys plan support for linux soon. My secondary question is: Just where does one go to get info on 'cutting edge' linux development? I've used Linux off and on for years, but never needed to see what was going on this deep into the kernel, nor do I know where to look to see if any development is occurring for this chipset. (meanwhile, RH8 is dormant on the laptop as the XP support is adequate.)"

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Re:Common mistake. by afidel · 2003-03-03 06:46 · Score: 2, Insightful

Linksys can't release the specs because they don't own the IP behind the chipset, that would be up to Intersill/whoever they are using this week.

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