On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Kelvin Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben: > > I'm guessing you have already picked up something -- you did mention > today. However, you have stated 'just works' several times, but I don't > know if anybody has asked what 'just works' means. Are you needing it > just as a plug n' play type of deal, or for doing more complicated > things like creating additional access points, or packet injection?
It's not for me, it's for an end user - so it can't break (eg. after an kernel upgrade, or possibly a dist-upgrade - (eg.Hardy)) The setup doesn't have to be plug and play per se, but I find it difficult to imagine a card that would require fiddling yet keep working well across kernel and possibly dist-upgrades. > That said, I have to admit I'm surprised you are having such trouble > with your Atheros based card. its base on the 513, not 512 like all the known working ones seem to be... > I have always preferred to purchase this > chipset, however I always have downloaded the madwifi source instead of > using the restricted drivers that Ubuntu provides. for the reasons above, I don't want to experiment with this. > You may also want to check out one of the Orinoco cards, they generally > seem to be very compatible with Linux. I can't seem to find them in Australia. I understand they are sometimes rebadged but apparently there are issues ensuring the pci id and vendor id are what is expected... > I've also had experience with a generic wifi usb dongle that I picked up > in Taiwan that used the rt2500 driver; it seemed to work most of the > time. not for Hardy though. > Either way, I hope your wifi quest is a success. Thanks. I'm going to grab a d-link one off the FSF list and possibly the Edimax one as well and see how far that gets me. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
