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

[Aleksander Helgaker]

Luckily I am using dchp.

I noticed while browsing the net for info on this that Ubuntu is bundled
with the drivers for this, but it is broken and doesn't work so I'll have to
blaclist it, but there is a new version of ubuntu (7.04) in ten days, so if
I'm lucky, they should have fixed it by then and I may be able to get it
working without any extra work.


On 4/9/07, Richard Mortimer <richm at oldelvet.org.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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> >
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Aleksander
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