Re: Linksys support... hmm
2006/4/30, Shane J Pearson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Lasse, On 2006.04.30, at 8:38 PM, Lasse Bach wrote: I also need to know if v5 of the WMP54G uses a Ralink Technology RT25x0 chip? Are you unable to avoid it? Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 2. Why are such information not available to their customers? Because they suck (the company). I'm using Nintendo USB Wifi connector, and it works kindly since 3.9-beta, as you can see : $ dmesg | grep ural ural0 at uhub0 port 1 ural0: Nintendo Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2 ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x05), RF RT2526, address 00:0d:0b:c3:cb:bb Its bundled with a chord that allow you to glue it high on a wall :) I wonder if a PCI-minipci card with a minipci RT25x0 based card might be good for you? From RAL(4): The following Mini PCI adapters should work: Amigo AWI-922W. Billionton MIWLGRL. Gigabyte GN-WIKG. MSI MP54G2. MSI MS-6833. Tonze PC-620C. Zinwell ZWX-G360. Shane
Re: Linksys support... hmm
Sorry - never mind. I cracked open my case after I got home to verify, and I'm using a v4. v5 must be really new then, because I bought this just a few weeks ago. Kian Kian Mohageri wrote: Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? Yes, I used it to create an access point on 3.8-stable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg|grep ral0 ral0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Ralink RT2560 rev 0x01: irq 11, address 00:16:b6:57:1e:59 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 Hope that helps. -- Kian Mohageri ResTek, Western Washington University [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linksys support... hmm
On Sunday 30 April 2006 18:38, Lasse Bach wrote: Wtf is that? How can that be a secret? It probably isnt but i bet that's the standard reply you'll always get from first-level support. 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? I have no idea. I know the ural works with the listed Surecom EP-9001-g though. 2. Why are such information not available to their customers? Because Linksys makes substandard products (much like their mother company Cisco, only cheaper) and have retarded policies? --- Lars Hansson
Re: Linksys support... hmm
Il giorno dom, 30/04/2006 alle 12.38 +0200, Lasse Bach ha scritto: Hi folks, I have been writing Linksys because i need to know if the v5 of their WMP54G wireless NIC can be used with the ral driver. Here's an abstract of the mail: Me asking: I also need to know if v5 of the WMP54G uses a Ralink Technology RT25x0 chip? Linksys answering: I apologize but we are not allowed to disclose any information regarding the chipsets of any of our devices. Besides, we do not have any access with those information. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience. Ask them to send the document that prevent them to have access those informations and to communicate these informations to you. If they don't send any document, continue to ask the same question until they give you the informations you need and you have the right to access.
Re: Linksys support... hmm
Hi Lasse, On 2006.04.30, at 8:38 PM, Lasse Bach wrote: I also need to know if v5 of the WMP54G uses a Ralink Technology RT25x0 chip? Are you unable to avoid it? Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 2. Why are such information not available to their customers? Because they suck (the company). I wonder if a PCI-minipci card with a minipci RT25x0 based card might be good for you? From RAL(4): The following Mini PCI adapters should work: Amigo AWI-922W. Billionton MIWLGRL. Gigabyte GN-WIKG. MSI MP54G2. MSI MS-6833. Tonze PC-620C. Zinwell ZWX-G360. Shane
Re: Linksys support... hmm
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Marco Castronovo wrote: Linksys answering: I apologize but we are not allowed to disclose any information regarding the chipsets of any of our devices. Besides, we do not have any access with those information. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience. Ask them to send the document that prevent them to have access those informations and to communicate these informations to you. How about just buying your hardware from another vendor? Do you really want to reward such utter stupidity? -d
Re: Linksys support... hmm
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Lasse Bach wrote: Hi folks, I have been writing Linksys because i need to know if the v5 of their WMP54G wireless NIC can be used with the ral driver. Here's an abstract of the mail: Me asking: I also need to know if v5 of the WMP54G uses a Ralink Technology RT25x0 chip? Linksys answering: I apologize but we are not allowed to disclose any information regarding the chipsets of any of our devices. Besides, we do not have any access with those information. Again, we apologize for any inconvenience. Wtf is that? How can that be a secret? Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? Look at the windows driver for information. Seeing this is not currently available on their site, tell them you lost the cd for your card and want the driver. If the .inf file does not contain the required information, you can look for tidbits in the .sys files with strings. Linksys seem to provide zip or self extracting zips in general so you should be able to get at these files. If not cabextract and unshield from ports can come in handy. 2. Why are such information not available to their customers? Perhaps they want people to buy from them because of their brand name rather than the chipsets they use, which seem to be whatever happens to be cheapest that particular week.
Re: Linksys support... hmm
Lasse Bach wrote: Wtf is that? How can that be a secret? Because the WMP54G, at least, isn't manufactured by Linksys, it's a rebadged Lite-On? (Hint: FCC ID) Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? If you can find the FCC ID, you can look it up at https://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/oet/cf/eas/reports/GenericSearch.cfm, and then just look at the internal photos. I didn't find anything in a quick Google, but I'm not looking to buy the card so I didn't work that hard. 2. Why are such information not available to their customers? They don't want their customers to know their brand differentiation consists of a sticker?
Re: Linksys support... hmm
Maybe someone on the mailing list can provide me with an answer to: 1. Can v5 af the card be used with the ral driver? Yes, I used it to create an access point on 3.8-stable. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg|grep ral0 ral0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Ralink RT2560 rev 0x01: irq 11, address 00:16:b6:57:1e:59 ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525 Hope that helps. -- Kian Mohageri Western Washington University [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
