usb wireless networking for notebook

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Jul 9 19:19:21 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:08:31PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> One thing worries me about this list: the devices that are labelled as
> 'green', most show links to driver downloads and such. Are there no
> usb wireless adaptors that are supported natively in the kernel?
> 
> I guess it's been so long since I've used Windows, I've become
> somewhat suspicious of the concept of going and downloading my own
> drivers ;)

Well current kernel versions include:

rt2x00usb
rt2500usb
rt2800usb
rt73usb

So ralink looks fairly well supported out of the box these days.

The 2x00 drivers are the new development, rather than the legacy code
ralink originally released.

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