Tony Arnold wrote: > Mat, > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:39 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote: >> Funnily enough the one I got from the Computer Shop in Kilburn worked >> fine for me in windows and ubuntu. > > That's where I got the current one! It's an RAlink with the RT2500 chip > set. Worked great with feisty but not so good on Gutsy. Checkout bug > #134660 on launchpad. There is a recommendation to try the 'legacy' > driver, so I may give that a go again tonight (I did try it, but it > didn't seem to make any difference). > > Regards, > Tony.
I wonder if Al's reading this. I'll remind him what he told me. ;-) Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Mac, > > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 +0100, Mac wrote: >> For example, linuxemporium recommends Edimax. I bought one some time >> ago, but it didn't work 'out of the box' with Feisty. It doesn't >> work 'out of the box' with Gutsy live CD. So I'm sceptical of >> anything that doesn't come with an 'I've actually seen this working' >> recommendation. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500 > > "The easiest way to get your wireless working if you have rt2500-based > wireless is to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10. Everything works out of the box, > including WPA." > > Cheers, > Al. > Luckily, I haven't started trying to install Gutsy with the Edimax RAlink card yet. In the same thread, Steve Drake said "Also consider Atheros based cards, usually with 108 Mbps, Xtreme G or Super G on the box. Most cards will work fine. Only the very latest cards have issues with the binary firmware. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Madwifi "There's a list of specific cards on the madwifi site. http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility"; What do you reckon to the Atheros option, Tony? (And thanks for the timely warning about RAlink!) Mac -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
