[kwlug disc.] Where to buy ASUS WL500G router, was: (advanced user only) Request for kernel compile time

Tue Apr 8 22:45:18 EDT 2008

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As best I could determine, the bundled PCMCIA card in question, the
WL-100gE has a Broadcom 4318 radio in it. This would make it just as
useful/less in Linux as the wi-fi in the router.

It would probably work if you are willing and able (32bit kernel) to use
a kludge like ndiswrapper.

unsolicited wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 04/08/2008 4:55 PM:
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, unsolicited wrote:
>>
>>> Robert P. J. Day wrote, On 04/08/2008 12:22 PM:
>>>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Adam Glauser wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Richard Weait wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 15:12 -0400, L.D. Paniak wrote:
>>>>>>> Asus WL500g Premium wireless router w/OpenWRT devel 2.6.23 kernel:
>>>>>> That one have usb?  Where'd you get it?
>>
>>>>> I picked one up at Canada Computers in Waterloo a couple of
>>>>> weeks ago. The only one they had left also came with a PCMCIA
>>>>> 802.11g adapter, and cost about $10-$15 more than just a router.
>>>>> I can't remember whether I got the last one or the second last
>>>>> one.
>>>> they're out of stock at the moment but, yes, for a whole extra $7,
>>>> you can get a wireless PCMCIA card thrown in with that router.
>>> Which also wouldn't work with 2.6 / kamikaze, at the moment? [But,
>>> would provide 802.11n when it becomes a standard?]
>>
>> i'm not sure what the question is here -- i'm assuming the wireless
>> PCMCIA card is just a standard wireless card, it has nothing to do
>> with your router running 2.6/kamikaze.  or am i misunderstanding
>> something?
> 
> Actually, I think I'm the one who's confused: I was reading 'comes with
> a PCMCIA card' as 'has a PCMCIA slot.' Oops.
> 
> So, being a wireless router (but not in this context), and having a
> PCMCIA slot to take a wi-fi card, is sort of (uselessly) redundant.
> 
> (-:
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