Bug 83261

Summary: Linksys 802.11G PCMCIA card doesn't work
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Elliot Peele <elliot>
Component: kernel-pcmcia-csAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED DEFERRED QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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output of lspci -vvv
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Description Elliot Peele 2003-02-01 00:26:07 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20021216

Description of problem:
I am trying to use a Linksys 802.11g card. I doubt this is actualy suposed to
work yet, being that its new hardware. If theres any information that I can
prvide let me know. I've attached the output of lspci and the errors that are
logged in the syslog.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put card in
2. no worky worky
3.
    

Actual Results:  no worky worky

Expected Results:  It should eventualy get fixed.

Additional info:

I have tried the kernel, kernel-pcmcia-cs, and wireless-tools out of rawhide
other than that my system is phoebe2 + updates.

Comment 1 Elliot Peele 2003-02-01 00:28:25 UTC
Created attachment 89754 [details]
output of lspci -vvv

Comment 2 Elliot Peele 2003-02-01 00:33:59 UTC
Created attachment 89755 [details]
syslog output

This is what is printed in the syslog when the card is inserted and removed.

Comment 3 Mike Snitzer 2003-02-28 23:41:52 UTC
the linksys 802.11g card uses the Broadcom AirForce chipset; so given Broadcom's
history of (not) providing specs for their chipsets to the Open Source community
I'd say don't hold your breath for Linux support. <A
HREF="http://www.tomshardware.com/network/20030213/">picture of WPC54G</A>

Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2003-04-30 18:34:35 UTC
Once drivers exist we'll most likely ship them. So far they don't.
Since it doesn't look like drivers will exist short term I'm marking this
request as defered :(