Re: Wireless LAN cards for Fedora?

2008/8/8 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>:
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:

2008/8/6 Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>:

Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:

2008/8/1 bruce <bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

hi...

for my $0.02....

i would argue for getting a cheap ~$40 linksys G usb wireless dongle...

i have a laptop, amd x64, running fedora8, and after trying for a few
days
to get the madwifi/atheros stuff working, i got the usb dongle, plugged
it
in, and lo and behold.. up/running in a matter of 5 mins!!!

good luck...


I second that .. I just bought a Linkys WUSB54GC and it worked right
out of the box with Fedora9 x86_64.
It is using the rt73usb driver / module ... and the rtx drivers have
been included in main-line kernel 2.6.22(?) since about Jan 2008.

I was ordering this and started reading reviews, really doesn't get a lot
of
love from people who have it:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16833124187

I don't suppose anyone has tried the newer WUSB600N or WUSB300N, they
both
got decent reviews, support 802.11n (not a requirement), 256 bit
encryption,
and WPA2. The last could be an issue to connect at some customer sites.
I'd
love to have the features, the size of the 300N isn't an issue, and the
price is less important than the reliability.

Most of the complaints are about signal, I'm spoiled, my old ACER laptop
with ipw2200 and whatever firmware was around when FC4 was new will work
at
home from my office to the library, through a floor with 2x8 joists and
three real (plaster and lathe) walls, and will hear two routers in the
apartment house down the road and three in the college, at least 400' and
two brick walls away. People who say they have problems through a
sheetrock
wall make me think the sensitivity is lacking.

Google finds many questions on these adaptors, and only minimal success
using ndiswrapper, which is not a long term solution. Well, newegg has
these
WUSB54GC on sale, I'll take a chance on getting one and see if it holds
up.
Maybe someone else will get a driver for the fancy new devices in the
meantime.

Thanks for the part number.


Well ... my experience is different from those in the reviews ( maybe
they were using windows as some were talking about re-install? ).
Signal strength is about 75% according to network-manager when I have
direct line-of-sight to the wireless router. I have not tried walking
around the house to see how far I can get a signal from my wireless
router ( also a Linksys ... WRT54GL )

FWIW, I am also running with the latest kernel for F9 x86_64.

Well, after a vast amount of hacking around with settings, I finally get
mine working, and it works fine just where I need it, at the far end of a
big old Victorian house, through floors and real walls. I'll be using it
tonight while I watch the first Giants game. ;-)


Strange ... you said you have to do quite a bit of hacking to make the
Linksys WUSB54GC work, while in my case, just plug and play. What did
you have to do ?

You're using F9 ?

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