I'll try that tomorrow and see if I can get it to work.<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/9/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Richard Mortimer</b> <<a href="mailto:richm@oldelvet.org.uk">richm@oldelvet.org.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 19:16 +0100, Aleksander Helgaker wrote:<br>> I'm tired of messing around for ages every time I try a new Linux
<br>> distro to get my wifi to work. The problem is I have a usb based wifi<br>> card (WUSB54GC Linksys) which sometimes works with ndiswrapper. It<br>> work perfectly in Windows vista. I've had it running for about 2
<br>> months with no problems now and I've also had it running on windows<br>> xp.<br><br>For what its worth I bought one of these beasts a month or so back. It<br>actually works fine with the rt73 driver from<br>
<a href="http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/">http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/</a><br>The newer (development/fully open) rt2x00 drivers from the site don't<br>work (apparently a known problem) but the rt73 does. I have to configure
<br>it with a specific sequence, and it doesn't seem to like doing dhcp - I<br>think that there are some patches that fix it floating around - but it<br>works quite happily for me.<br><br>For the record I set it up with
<br><br>/sbin/ifconfig rausb0 up<br>iwconfig rausb0 key [1] aaaaaaaaaa<br>iwconfig rausb0 essid myapid<br>ifconfig rausb0 <a href="http://192.168.2.199">192.168.2.199</a> netmask <a href="http://255.255.255.0">255.255.255.0
</a> up<br>route add default gw <a href="http://192.168.2.254">192.168.2.254</a> rausb0<br><br>obviously you need to replace aaaaaaaaaa, myapid and IP addrs with the<br>real values for your site but other than that it works fine.
<br><br>YMMV<br><br>Richard<br><br><br>><br>> Is anyone interested in trading this for a PCI based wifi card? I can<br>> trade the following for it;<br>><br>> Belkin F5D6020 v.1 (PCMCIA)<br>> Belkin F5D6020
v.2 (PCMCIA)<br>> D-Link DWL-650+ (PCMCIA)<br>> None of these have a box or manual.<br>><br>> Linksys WUSB54GC (USB)<br>> This still has it's box, manual and cd, but I'm not quite sure where<br>> the USB cap has gone.
<br>><br>> I'm only interested in PCI cards wich work with open-source drivers.<br>><br>> --<br>> Aleksander<br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Nelug mailing list - <a href="mailto:Nelug@mailman.lug.org.uk">
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Aleksander