I was looking around for a wireless card (no, I'm not asking for suggestions) and I came accross the Prism54 kernel driver.  Which then led me to the Prism54.org site.  Looking at their supported interface tables, the Linksys WRT54G is supposedly supported by that driver.

Now, there's an up side and a sown side to this.  It seems external, non-GPL firmware is required for use with the Prism54 driver, so a working package can't be distributed as far as I know.

With that said, I'm wondering if anybody has attempted to use the Prism54 driver with the WRT54G?  A possible advantage to this would be the use of iwspy so we can scan for subnets.  But I'm not even sure if the Prism54 driver would provide this capability.

Anywho...has anybody tried it?  >8)

The wrt54g has no relation to the prism54 driver or intersil 802.11g/a chipset.  wrt54g and gs use a proprietary broadcom chipset.

i am typing this from a laptop with a prism54 802.11g card in it using my wrt54g as the basestation, perhaps that is what someone meant by "supported"

I recommend prism54 equipment as its driver is open source.  The firmware is required to use the cards because the cards don't have a flash rom on them.  You'll have that problem no matter what card you use.  the prism54 firmware is widely available.

No, that's not what I meant by supported.  Go look on the Prism54 website in the support table, the WRT54G is listed in there.

http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php

gps is telling you that the WRT54G doesn't use the prism chipset and the table is in error or someone might be mistaken.  It might also be someone reporting on a prism based mini-pci card that works in the v1 WRT54G that had a mini-pci slot.

The WRV54G might use a prism card based on the info at http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrv54g

Here's a thought: replace the Broadcom miniPCI card with a Prism54-based miniPCI card and use the prism54.org drivers. Of course, this would only work with the WRT54G v1 or the Belkin F5D7230-4 that actually has the wireless chipset in a miniPCI slot and not soldered to the main PCB. Anyone tried that?

I seem to recall seeing somwhere that some of the old WRT54G's either shipped with Prism based chips, or you could swap the Broadcom chip for a Prism miniPCI card. I believe that is why it is listed on the table.