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

[Richard Mortimer]

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:38 +0100, Aleksander Helgaker wrote:
> I'll try that tomorrow and see if I can get it to work.
> 
Oh, almost forgot if you aren't using dhcp you will have to
setup /etc/resolv.conf as well otherwise domain names will not work.
Just add a 

nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

line and maybe a search line too if you need one.

Richard

> 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.
>         >
>         > --
>         > Aleksander
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