Your Guide to Wireless’s reader email to me, asking for help in wireless driver for linux.

One of the main limitations of Linux is the lack of drivers written for Linux. I have two computers, but I’ve installed Linux on only one. The other has a USB wireless adapter that connects to the Internet. It’s a NETGEAR WG121, which doesn’t have a Linux driver. I lack the skill to develop a wrapper, or whatever it’s called, for this driver, so I just have to stick to Windows XP.

There is a workaround that allows you to use Windows drivers to get network cards running under Linux. It is called ndiswrapper and works very well for many cards. Newbies may be intimidated by what it takes to use ndiswrapper, but we plan to do an article on it because it really makes a huge difference in the number of network cards available for Linux.

Tags: Wireless, Mobile Broadband, 802.11g