[lug] Seeking recommendations for a USB 1.1 Network Adapter for a laptop

John Karns jkarns at etb.net.co
Thu Jun 8 21:24:28 MDT 2006


On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, bof wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am seeking recommendations for a USB 1.1 Network Adapter for a laptop 
> (its USB ports are 1.1 only) and wondered if anyone could make 
> suggestions as to which work under Linux. I'm currently running FC5 and 
> completely unable to get the Broadcom 4318 chip build into the system to 
> work, having tried both ndiswrapper and the native Broadcom bcm43xx 
> drivers.

Sorry for the late response.  I've had good results with the Hawking 
Technologies HWU54G, which utilizes the Zydas ZD1211 chip.  Source for 
native driver is available for DL.  It's actually USB2, but backwards 
campatible with USB1, which I think is the case for most if not all USB2 
devices.

-- 
John Karns



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