On Wednesday 24 May 2006 15:35, David Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > James Gregory wrote: > > I need to buy a PCI wireless network card. I need it to work with Ubuntu > > (dapper) with the least amount of effort possible. Speed isn't so > > important, but I'll get the fastest one that meets my zero-effort > > criterion. What should I buy? > > I did a bit of research yesterday and surveying of some workmates and it > looks like rt2500-based cards are a goer. > > The Minitar MN54GPC-R seems be getting sold in Australia for around the > $60 mark. > > http://www.minitar.com/index.php?maincat=product&cat=wireless&prod=w_mn54gp >c-r&page=1 > > A listing of other rt2500-based cards: > > http://ralink.rapla.net/ > > And the ubuntu guide on setting 'em up: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/RalinkRT2500?action=show&redirect=Rt2500Wi >relessCardsHowTo
It's not as 'easy' as it looks. My RT2500 based Belkin card works out of the box (Ubuntu Dapper) with WEP, but if you want some security you should be using WPA2. I could not get the instructions on wiki.ubuntu.com to work for me. I resorted to using ndiswrapper, which works flawlessly. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
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