Compatible USB wireless

[Tyler Aviss]

The wireless "N" broadcom chipset on my laptop also doesn't seem to
behave very well. Doesn't work natively with b43, doesn't work with
ndiswrapper, and with the closed-source "WL" driver from broadcom
likes to disconnect rather frequently.

So I grabbed a TP-Link/RaLink wireless USB adaptor and all has been
well for surfing. It's slightly bigger than a USB memory stick, but
still fairly low-profile while getting a decent signal.
I'll check what the exact model is when I get home, but there's a
native kernel driver that works nicely.


- TJA

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:57 PM, John McGregor <mr.mcgregor-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm about to install Mepis 8 on my Acer Aspire 5003WMI laptop. The live
> CD runs fine but the Broadcom 4318 card isn't recognized (no surprise)
> due to Acer's wmi cruft. I fully expect to use ndiswrapper and the
> newest WinXP driver, but in the event that this proves problematic (the
> original Win driver I obtained was limited to WEP), could the people on
> the list recommend a usb wireless device that works well with linux?
> FWIW, Mepis 8 is based on Debian (lenny).
>
> TIA
>
> John
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