Re: Wireless support

["Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>]

--Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote (on Sunday, August 07, 2005 15:56:06 -0400):

> On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
>> Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS)
>> supported?
>> 
> 
> Wow, Google has really declined in quality.  I got zero hits for
> "Linksys WUSB 54G linux".  Then I found this page on my own.
> 
> (from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List)
> 
> Card: Linksys #[WUSB54G], 802.11b/g, USB 2.0 -- [link here|List#WUSB54G] 
>       * Chipset: Prism54
>       * usbid: 5041:2234
>       * Driver: Linksys Windows XP driver
>         http://www.linksys.com/download/default.asp
>       * Other: Works smoothly, of course ;) - this is the device the USB
>         extension was originally developed for. WEP is running, WPA is
>         supported using wpa_supplicant 0.2.5. No problems with both 1.1
>         and 2.0 host controllers. As with many other USB devices, no
>         success with 2.4 kernels so far. Try to use 2.6.7 or better.
>         There is a native driver for Prism54 that is working on USB
>         support. View its status at Prism54.org
> 
> Sorry for the WOB.  And if anyone from Google is reading, WTF?

It doesn't actually say it works on Linux. Perhaps you wanted 
mysticgooglepsychic.com? ;-) 

I don't think it is reasonable to expect google to know what ndiswrapper 
is ... or perhaps it just has a taste filter installed? ;-)

M.