[Ma-linux] Wireless-N and Linux

[Louis C. Kouvaris]

What is the status of Linux support for -N? The kernel drivers say they 
don't support it yet. I have a Netgear WN311B PCI wireless adapter using 
the Broadcom BCM4321 chip. Broadcom puts out a Linux STA driver for it. 
The driver, though doesn't initialize the device, no wlan0 is created. 
There are no error messages, and yes I followed all the little details 
in the directions. The adapter though works fine in WinXP. I then tried 
using ndiswrapper with the WinXP drivers and again nothing. No error 
messages and no wlan0. lspci sees the device correctly and ndiswrapper 
-l says the driver is loaded and the device is present with the correct 
pid. Ndiswrapper is working correctly with an older DLink adapter. 
Somewhere else on the web it was suggested that firmware needs to be 
installed, so I used b43-fwcutter to install firmware and still no 
wlan0. It seems as though none of the drivers are really working. I am 
running Slackware 13 with the 2.6.32.8 kernel. Does anyone what is 
happening with -N? How can I get my wireless working?