I have my sister's laptop back for finishing off. Got Realplayer, a few media players, firewall, VMWare, etc. all working with Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy.
After spending many hours trying to get a Realtek 8187B working with Ubuntu 8.04 64bit and the default NetworkManager, I gave up and decided to buy a USB wifi adapter instead. That way, I can test it out on my laptop before giving it to her. The other interfaces on her laptop are Mini PCI Express and Express Card, both of which have few chipsets with native Linux drivers, and neither of which I can test on anything but her laptop. I want to avoid ndiswrapper if I can. So, comes the question. There are quite a few older USB Wifi adapters out there that are known compatable with Linux, but few reviews of what is in the stores right now. I ordered a Trendnet TEW-424UB 54M G card from Newegg ($10 after rebate) which appears to work with the zd1211rw driver according to: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Devices/USB But of course, the manufacturers like to change the chips without changing the device model number. I may be out of luck. So who has experience with USB Wifi adapters, and has bought one very recently and got it working with native 64 bit drivers? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
