After trying to get it to operate for two days, I gave up and ordered a new card for $37.99. Apparently it don't like the Dell 8500 with broadcom network card and broadccom based wireless. Art Timothy Hanson wrote:

After installing it in about five minutes, having it work like a charm, and running to this list to broadcast the news, all I can say now is I'm excited.

My Linksys (Broadcom) WPC54G card works like a charm, using the Windows driver. What's exciting is that this appears to open up all those Windows devices to Linux. From what I've heard, now that they have the API down the floodgates to all those cameras, touchpads, printers, and the rest will open.

The bad part about this is the driver for Broadcom is closed source, and the only license is 30 day trial. They are hoping to get support from Linksys, and if they don't they might have to charge users. There is no price listed for this yet.

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 10:24, Art Fore wrote:

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For those of you with Broadcom Wireless adapters, such as in the Dell 8500, can now install the windows drivers under Linux using a wrapper from linuxant. The link is below. I will be trying it this afternoon.

http://www.linuxant.com/drivers_bcmwl/

Art