On Monday 19 February 2007 11:43, Stroller wrote: > On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:19, Mick wrote: > > ... I am trying to > > find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have > > much joy > > with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is > > supported well in Linux. > > > > Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? > > You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you > that they do a "set" (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are > excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are > OSS & you can get them with `emerge rt2500`.
Well, I didn't want to bore you - I think I may have already posted about my troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, Model No. K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset. I have had some success running it with the rt2x00-9999 drivers from CVS and USE="rt2500usb" (the stable rt2500 crashed my system every time). However, after Christmas the rt2x00 driver has not worked and keeps giving me kernel panics every time I plug it in the USB port, e.g.: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=18890#18890 I suspect it may have something to do with the 2.6.19 kernel. All different CVS builds that I have tried crashed. Tried to install pre-Christmas builds from the archives, also crashed. Hence I'm fed up being without WiFi for so long and thought of using an Amazon voucher I have handy to get myself a nice cardbus; but this time I would like to make sure that I have something which definitely works with Linux. However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again then I'll use that voucher for something else. :) Thank you all for your helpful advice and links. > I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in > advance regarding shipping: > <http://networkned.co.uk/Belkin_Cardbus.php> > FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. Having been burned once I would rather go for something which has matured enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the suggestion all the same. -- Regards, Mick
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