[ILUG] Wireless Broadband Connections

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Mark Page (markpage at eircom.net):

> Got some great responses here and the early ones suggested that drivers 
> were available but subsequent threads have made me wonder. Anyway the 
> exact model is U.S Robotics Wireless Turbo PC Card - Model 5410.

Just so you know, using the above information I simply went to Google
and searched for "5410 wireless chipset".  (Sometimes, it's useful to
add "Linux" in there.)  The general gist of search results strongly
suggests that the chipset is a Texas Instruments TNETW1130, also known
as an ACX111, which is the one I referred to in the first of my two
messages, earlier.

So, the analysis and advice I included in that e-mail would seem to
apply.  As an addendum to that post, here's the development site for the
relevant open-source driver effort:  http://acx100.sourceforge.net/
Judging from their supported-devices table, it looks like they're saying
they've gotten USR 5410 support working -- but you'd presumably have a
fun time (using the term loosely) checking out and compiling development
code, which you may or may not consider too much trouble.

As a reminder, in your shoes, I'd sell the card on eBay and pick up one
with more-solid open-source drivers (e.g., one using the prism54
chipset).

By the way, after getting tired of having to find the main Linux
hardware/driver information pages over and over, I finally made a
link-farm page for future reference:

"Help Resources" on http://linuxmafia.com/kb/Hardware/

-- 
Cheers,             "I used to be on the border of insanity.  However, due 
Rick Moen           to pressing political concerns, I recently had to invade."
rick at linuxmafia.com                        -- Kurt Montandon, in r.a.sf.w.r-j