[ubuntu-in] "Belkin" Wireless adopter does not support Ubuntu?

[Kingsly John]

+++ Sriranga(78yrsold) [2011-04-13 19:05:49]:

> Hi all,
> my friend wanted to install ubuntu using Live CD. Before doing he
> wanted to make  sure  whether Belkin wireless adopter is supported ubuntu
>  how to to connect in the ubuntu  for which step by step is requested. At
> present my friend
> is using WinxP and wireless adopter is working well -he says.

Wifi adpaters are not discernable from their brand name alone. Even with the
same model name/number there is no guarantee that your experience will mirror
someone else's. Linksys/Netgear/Belkin/D-Link etc. do not make the wireless
chips that go into these adapters. They merely source them from vendors like
broadcom/atheros/prism etc. So different models from the same vendor will
have very different chips inside and even worse they are known to switch chip
vendors between different revisions of the same model. 

So a "Netgear Foo 54G Rev.a" might work flawlessly while Rev.b of the same model
will be a completely different chip/device in the same/similar plastic shell
and absolutely unusable.

Kingsly

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