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

[Sriranga(78yrsold)]

extract of reply received from my friend is noted below:
Dear sir,
May be BELKIN has several products. Mine is BELKIN basic and what is marked
on the instalation CD is "Windows" X vista and 7. I will try to go wired
shortly.
Regards,
Rao


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Kingsly John <member+ubuntu at kingsly.net>wrote:

> +++ 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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