im new with linux, and im getting ready to install wine. my wireless linksys card doesn't work kuz linksys doesn't have linux drivers. so i had an idea that if wine emulates programs it might emulate drivers too. if u guys know linux drivers for the linksys wireless pci card, plz send me a link this is the card i have http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid=33&scid=36&prid=621 p4 at 3330mhz 512mb pc3200 dual channel 80gb wd hdd 8x agp geforce 6200 Audigy 2 ZS dvd and cd burner only 15 so i am tight on cash

ello. From what i've heard, wine only emulates windows applications, and far from all windows applications runs smooth on wine. There is always some minor problems, and sometimes requies a little tweaking. I've never heard of anyone who successfully installed windows drivers on linux using wine, so i don't think i'll work very good, if at all. Im kind of in the same situation as you are.. Have no drivers for my wireless PCI card...

I'm having a guess, but if you successfully install drivers with wine then they will probably only be available for use by applications run with wine too. This link with a walkthrough may help you: http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:ivYD9yYje8gJ:forums.windrivers.com/archive/index.php/t-67640.html+linux+WMP54GS&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 If you still can't get it to work then write to linksys. The more requests they get for GNU/Linux drivers the more likely they will spend time developing one.

I had the same problem with redhat 9 seeing my netgear wg311 wireless card. I found a commercial driver loader at Http//:www.linuxant.com. It cost $19.95 and works well. It loads the windows XP driver in a wrapper and configures it for use under Linux. The program loads the Windows driver right off the OEM CD that came with the network card. The only glitch I have found is that on my system it does not work with the SMP kernel. So at boot time I load the non SMP kernel. I haven’t noticed any performance hit’s so I am well pleased with how every thing is working.