Hello all, I recently purchased a Linksys Wireless 802.11g access point. I don't think it matters much here, but I'm running Slackware 8.1 with the 2.4.20 kernel. I know I kind of jumped the gun and that there's not much on the horizon for linux support for Linksys 802.11g, but does anyone have any useful knowledge about the subject? What I'd like are suggestions as to whether I should weather it out for a while and stick with the faster technology, or abandon all hope and just return my hardware?

bump

Who knows, there are no currently supported 802.11g cards out there, but the access point can run 802.11b, so just find a prism2 knockoff card or a lucent silver and rock the casbah at 11Mbs until 802.11g is available under linux. How it worked under 802.11b was the first devices were supported horribly with code from the vendors and then projects sprung up to take that further, there are also quite a few cards that exist that are simply black-boxes: the TI chipset in Dlink's "+" offerings or the broadcom chip in the v2.7 of Linksys's WMP11. No matter what, if something appears you're going to be waiting a while for a driver from the community, a few months at least... but who knows a manufacturer might put out a device with Linux drivers!

Now, also nobody advertises this, but the 802.11g spec IS NOT FINALIZED, so these are guesses as to what the agreed upon standard will be when its agreed upon, which means there have been reported interoperability problems with different companies 802.11g offerings (although they all seem to talk b just fine together...).

Cheers,

Finegan