Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. I tried this on my laptop and got this result :- $ lspci -n | grep 14e4 00:0a.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter (Merchant), On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. Not quite sure what happened here: I was asking about 802.11n with respect to Belkin and

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 12:18 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter (Merchant), On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. Not quite sure what

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-28 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter (Merchant), On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 11:55 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. Not quite sure what happened here: I was asking about 802.11n with respect

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-28 Thread Peter Merchant
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 13:48 +, John Cooper wrote: On 20/02/11 11:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. I tried this on my laptop and got this result :- $ lspci -n | grep

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-28 Thread jr
On 28 February 2011 20:56, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: What other test can I do? try using it on a Windoze box?? (takes cover at the cries of heresy ;-)) -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Blandford Forum, Wednesday

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-26 Thread Peter Washington
Hi Ralph, On 26 February 2011 01:21, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: $ lspci -vmmnn | awk 'BEGIN {RS = } /Vendor:[^[]+*\[14e4\]/ {print $0, \n}' Slot: 00:0a.0 Class:        Network controller [0280] Vendor:       Broadcom Corporation [14e4] Device:       BCM4306 802.11b/g

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-25 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, $ lspci -vmmnn | awk 'BEGIN {RS = } /Vendor:[^[]+*\[14e4\]/ {print $0, \n}' Slot: 00:0a.0 Class:Network controller [0280] Vendor: Broadcom Corporation [14e4] Device: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [4320] SVendor: Wistron NeWeb Corp. [185f]

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-21 Thread Peter Merchant
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 17:42 +, Tim Allen wrote: Hi Peter On 19/02/11 18:09, Peter Merchant wrote: My ZYxel wireless USB stick has been working at 16% signal strength, and my neighbour suggested that I try a Belkin one as he had a good signal (albeit on W7). I borrowed a Belkin

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-20 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. I tried this on my laptop and got this result :- $ lspci -n | grep 14e4 00:0a.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) 00:0c.0 0200: 14e4:169c (rev 03) $ Could explain what this means

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-20 Thread John Cooper
On 20/02/11 11:55, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. I tried this on my laptop and got this result :- $ lspci -n | grep 14e4 00:0a.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 03) 00:0c.0 0200: 14e4:169c (rev

Re: [Dorset] Belkin wireless USB

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Washington
Hi Folks, ... and Ralph, On 20 February 2011 11:55, Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote: Hi Peter, I'm taking the liberty of copying this back to the list because the answer may interest some there too. OK, no problem, I don't mind showing off my woeful ignorance to the rest of