On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 22:55 +0800, eric pareja wrote: > Sorry to chime in late, but if you do get the Edimax, check > the model number -first-. I purchased an Edimax 7318UG > thinking that I would be able to use it under Linux on > an iBook. > > The Edimax USB Wifi comes with a Driver/Utilities Disk > (CD-ROM) which includes drivers for Debian, Fedora, > Mandrake, SuSE, Mac OS X (10.3.x, 10.4.x) and Windows > x64. These are binary only drivers... I was unable to > use it on my uncommon setup (Linux PPC), but it worked > fine under Mac OS X.
Hmmm, OK. I was going to bring the laptop to the store and test it there :-). > You will probably not run into problems getting it to work > under more mainstream Linux distributions since the binaries > are built for x86 anyway. yeah. And I intend to get it working on Mandriva, which is probably supported. At some point though, when I can get ubuntu installed on this laptop (might need to go with the text based installer since ubiquity, the graphical installer fails, or i just need to download Edgy ;-) I might have problems. Well, we'll see. > The older models have open source drivers around > (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com > and http://rt2400.sf.net), but I would test the thing before making an > outright purchase. yeah, thanks a lot! driver support is still a big stumbling block. particularly with devices that need firmware. when I was shopping around (looked at a linksys and a dlink USB wifi device, got some partial success with the DLink, at least it saw it as an RALink USB wifi device, I just didn't know what drivers to load), the store tech sales guys were left with the impression that device support is a problem in Linux. It's an unfortunate impression to leave, but it's certainly true for some devices (wifi, some video cards, someone I work with can't get his NVidia ethernet card working in Linux, even with the binary drivers or the free nvidia ethernet driver). tiger -- Gerald Timothy Quimpo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Business Systems Development, KFC/Mr Donut/Ramcar Watch out for long wires - the digital abstraction doesn't always hold when inductance gets in the way. -- http://www.technicat.com/writing/mit.html _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
