Wireless cards

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Merv Curley wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 December 2006 13:34, Simon wrote:
> 
> Again thanks to all for the links and help.  Hopefully others will benefit.  
> 
> Looks like I won't have to make a trip to a store and add to my growing credit 
> card deficit.
> 
> > Are you sure that's the right model number? See this page for a list
> > of some D-Link adapters.
> 
> I may not have supplied the complete model, but it is listed along with the 
> Ver 2 model that I have at he prism54 website and a jbnote*.fr site that I 
> checked last night.  I now have another dozen to look at,  thanks all. 

More choices for usb wireless that have linux drivers (or at least will
eventually) is to get something with a ralink chipset.  List of known
models is here:

http://ralink.rapla.net/

I currently use a ralink 2560 based pci card, and am playing with the
cvs drivers to get the latest features.  So far it loads, connects using
wpa (without needing wpa_supplicant, this is all done in the driver) and
transfers data, although occationally the connection seems to pause for
a few seconds and then resumes transfering.  I do currently have the
machine much to close to the AP however, which I guess I should try and
resolve.

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