Is wireless support any better with FC5?

[Alessandro Brezzi]

Hi all,
there is any plan to release in FC5 the AdvancedDatapath WiFi software
stack, just released from Devicescape under GPL licence as for
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS1977847793.html ?
This seem a definitive response to the nigthmare of WiFi in Linux.

Alessandro


On 5/3/06, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 10:47 -0400, James Pifer wrote:
> > Is wireless support any better with FC5?
> >
> > I'm on FC4 now and have been using ndiswrapper with a Broadcom card for
> > some time: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN
> > Controller (rev 03). Recently my DLink DI-624 router died and I just got
> > the replacement. Now I can't get FC4 to reconnect. I can scan the
> > wireless network and see it, but I can't connect to it.
> >
> > I've also tried two PCMCIA cards, a DLink DWL-G650 with the Atheros
> > chipset (I've never got this to work) and a CompUSA card with an unknown
> > chipset (doesn't work either).
> >
> > I've also never been able to get WEP to work, so I've been stuck using
> > no encryption and filtering MACs. I would filter MACs anyway, but would
> > really like to use WEP, even though it's not the greatest security.
> >
> > All three of these NICs work fine when I boot to Windows XP.
> >
> > So I'm wondering if FC5 improves anything. I've heard that SUSE is much
> > better at handling wireless, but I really like Fedora/Redhat.
> >
> > Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> > James
> >
>
> Just wanted to post an update here. I've installed FC5, and although I
> have some other issues, my wireless card is working great using bcm43xx-
> fwcutter with encryption. No ndiswrapper or madwifi.
>
> Many, many thanks to the developer(s) of this little package!
>
> James
>
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