[Nelug] Swap USB wifi card for a pci one?

[Aleksander Helgaker]

I'll try that tomorrow and see if I can get it to work.

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