Wireless drivers

Master Shake · Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:39 pm Post subject: Wireless drivers

Alright so I haven't used linux in a couple of months due to a couple of reasons that I'm not going to get into in this post. But I am looking to do a dual boot on my computer again. My question is would it be possible to get a Belkins Wireless G card with the BCM4306/BCM2050 chipset to work under linux? I've tried this card on other computers before and haven't had any luck. Has anything changed in the past couple of months? Would a separate package in portage have what I'm looking for? Or does the kernel have support for it yet?
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System Specs:
64-bit gentoo linux
Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz
P35 Chipset
4 Gigs 800mhz 4-4-4-12
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX @ 630mhz

kenthepostman · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 1:32 am Post subject:

Here's a couple of links:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.802.11ag.html#Broadcom
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

It appears that a driver does exist but it's in the early stages. I have the ipw2200 chipset and a year or so ago I used a driver that was in the early stages of development and it worked fine for my purposes.

Master Shake · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:34 am Post subject:

thanks. Now I just have to remember how to write emerges.
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System Specs:
64-bit gentoo linux
Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz
P35 Chipset
4 Gigs 800mhz 4-4-4-12
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX @ 630mhz