54G Wireless Networking

[kkhan]

I originally bought a 54G Wireless Router and a 54G Wireless PCI Card. I needed speed as the linux machine would be a personal FTP and Webserver. Also having kids a wired network was not an option. But when I installed the PCI 54G Wireless card I found that it is not supported by linux yet. Called the card Mfgr, The 54G Chip Mfgr, but no one could even provide me a beta driver. Called other Routher and Card Mfgrs but no one has support for linux. So my next alternative was to buy another router and use that as an wireless bridge accesspoint. Before Christmas time the router's price was same or even cheaper than the card. I am writing this because I did not know of this wireless bridging option and spent many hours trying to make the card work and wanted to let all the other that are maybe not knowingly thinking that there are other options. If anyone interested and could not figure out, let me know, I will write a detailed instruction. Please note before you buy a router make sure it can be used as accesspoint and wireless bridge. I have 2 of Belkin's 54G router (around $55/each after rebates).

[thaddaeus]

What all have you tried, install wise. I know in slackware it has some modules that can be used for some wifi cards, and you need to edit the /etc/rc.d/inet1.rc file although may be named difrently in your distro.

[hard candy]

Again, I get to say how great Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/changes.php) is, an update every week, works with 99% of the chipsets, keeps people from buying extra routers and cards :D , and takes 30 minutes to download, install, set up and start using.

[Icarus]

Originally posted by hard candy
Again, I get to say how great Linuxant (http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/changes.php) is, an update every week, works with 99% of the chipsets, keeps people from buying extra routers and cards :D , and takes 30 minutes to download, install, set up and start using. 30 minutes? What takes you so long? :D
Slow reader I'll guess ;)

The longest part would be finding the correct windows drivers I guess...

tar zxvf driverloader-1.54.tar.gz
cd driverloader
(If using Fedora do "export CC=gcc32" first)
make install
dldrconfig
open web browser "http://127.0.0.1:18020/"
logon as root
Add the .INF and .SYS files (drivers)
Add the License Key (trial or full)

I prefer to use the tarball (I have 3 distros on my laptop and I find it easier to do a "make uninstall" before making the updates then "rpm -e driverloader"...also easier to download one package that is usable on all 3 distros :)