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:ndiswrapper by Viol8 · 2006-01-24 01:26 · Score: 1, Troll

>If you're using a rpm based distro such as Fedora, you might look into setting
>up Livna as a repository for yum and then just get the appropriate ndiswrapper
>rpm from them. The folks at Livna do a really good job of publishing a
>recompiled ndiswrapper rpm whenever the kernel gets updated.

And people wonder why non technical users are put off Linux....