I have a laptop running WinXP/Suse 9.0. I looking for a 802.11g card that will work with Linux. Anyone know of any? Thanks

Erm.. yeah, if anyone could let me know if there's a way to get my 802.11g Belkin card to work in windows, please let me know.....

for free? ...not that I know of.

But this: http://www.linuxant.com/company/pres...e7587eee1216b8

enables 802.11g

Sabin,
Go with an Atheros chipset card and the madwifi driver.
Look here for a list of devices and their internals.

69RPM,
I suspect you have a Broadcom chipset in your Belkin G card. Try the ndiswrapper to see if you can get it to work.

I went with the Microsoft MN-720 card. I used the Linuxant Driver to make it work. The driver worked great. The problems I had were with the way Suse 9.0 does WiFi cards.

The driver makes the WiFi card ETH1. But Suse makes it WLAN0. The way I had to fix it so it works was to edit the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth1 file. I copyed the info from the WLAN0 file and put it in to ETH1 file. Then I changed all NIC cards to 'hotplug'. When I did this and rebooted, the card could get on the network and run at 54mb.

I am not sure if this has to be done with other distributions of Linux. I have run Mandrake 9.1 and it ran WiFi cards as ETH not WLAN so it should work with driver.

I will make a new post with this info for all to see.

my thinkpad T21 wiill read a linksys v3.0 with Mepis Linux install.... can you believe it???

Mandrake =nope
Suse=nope
redhat=nope

I am a newbie so those other packages must have not had the latest wlan drivers that is included with mepis

I just connected to the web on a wireless network after 3 weeks of tinkering. I read the post about A new company called Linuxant. Instead of flogging a dead horse and waiting for everybody(Network card Manufacturers) to supply drivers, Linuxant decided on a different course of action.
They make software that uses WINDOWS DRIVERS in linux. They support many different wireless network cards and have other projects in the works.
I have a D-Link DWL-G520 AirPlusExtremeG PCI card that i tried to configure on Fedora Core with Madwifi but couldn't get it to see the card.
After registering with Linuxant and getting a license. it took all of 20 min to download, install, config and surf. End of frustration......go here http://www.linuxant.com/company/


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