[lug] Linux 802.11b (broadcom)

[Nate Duehr]

On Friday, Jan 9, 2004, at 17:51 America/Denver, Timothy C. Klein wrote:

> Need advice on what 802.11b PCI wireless LAN card folks are using
> successfully with Linux.

Older Linksys (sorry, had to say it), and Lucent/Orinoco cards all 
working here.

> I bought a Linksys WMP11 PCI 802.11b card, because I had read up on
> it earlier and it worked with Linux (prism drivers from Linux-WLAN).
> Well, I didn't check again before I bought it, because it turns out
> Linksys completely changed the chip set on this card, (with the same 
> damn
> name), so that now it uses an unsupported-in-Linux Broadcom chip set.
> Frustrating.

Frustrating enough to say something to the vendor, I'd say.  Not 
changing the name is stupid.

I'd definitely return them and write a letter to Linksys expressing 
your disappointment and listing the name of the card you ultimately end 
up using saying that you purchased a competitor's product because of 
their poor engineering decision.

I let vendors know when they did something to lose my business.  They 
don't have any other way to know how their decisions might be wrong for 
their customers.

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com