State of WLAN Support on Linux?

Posted by Cliff on Monday January 23, 2006 @11:45AM from the plug-and-play? dept.

ntropic asks: "I/ve recently bought a Belkin 802.11G USB adapter and was dismayed to find, after a few hours of struggling with it, that there seems to be no one who has managed to get it working under Linux. During the search for clues, it seemed that sum total of Linux support for wireless networking are the linux-wlan project, and the linuxant wrappers for Windows drivers. The former seems to support only Prism chipsets while the latter is a commercial solution, albeit quite an inexpensive one. Is that all, or are there better sources for wireless networking support?"

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Re:You should see wifi support for OSX by NDPTAL85 · 2006-01-23 12:33 · Score: 3, Funny

You mean unless you buy the hardware from Apple. A Mac is an Apple product. If you were referring to a Microsoft product you wouldn't says "unless you buy the hardware from Windows".

And come on man. You bought a Mini without AirPort? WTF would you want to muck up the asthetics of a Mac with a dongle?

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Re:ndiswrapper by Tim+Browse · 2006-01-23 13:58 · Score: 2, Funny

DimWoes

Oh, my aching sides.
Re:the blame game by dotgain · 2006-01-23 18:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Wow! Is there anything Anonymous Coward hasn't done?