was wondering if anyone had any suggestions at getting my 54g wireless MaxPerformance wireless ethernet card working on my laptop in Linux. I am using slack 10.0.0. None of the standard wireless drivers work and broadcom does not make a Linux driver nor do they give the coding to allow someone else to. I have tried using ndiswrapper to use the Microsoft driver, however, it seems to fail at wrapping the driver I am trying to use because it redirects to an executable.

A few ideas that might work if someone could help.
1. Does anyone know of a driver that is just the .ini and .sys files and such and the external radio program that goes along with it?
2. Does anyone know how to find out what files specifically are being used for the driver in windows (besides the sys file listen in hardware)
3. Does anyone know if it is possible to take the links to the executable out of the .ini file or something to that affect to allow for successful wrapping?

Has anyone tried using Linuxant with this card? I heard linuxant works and if it is successful I'd be willing to shell out a couple bills for it.

Your card is not on the ndiswrapper list but you might want to try it before you go buying stuff. It does the same as linuxant though I'm not sure if both support the same. It only uses the .inf file.

Howdy Coyote,

I'm using a belkin 54g although the slightly earlier version without Max preformance. However it also uses a broadcom chipset. Check out my HCL entry on this site.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...p?product=1870

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...p?product=1898

The first is for the PCI version, the second for my cardbus laptop version. Anyhoo, I used the emachines ftp as listed at the ndiswrapper site

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/List

and it worked great. Whatever you do dont use the drivers from belkin as it locks up the machine totally at modprobe. (Well it did for me anyway - give it a go if the drivers listed above dont work ).

I would leave driverloader until you have tried ndiswrapper.
Regards
Chris