[Gllug] Wifi that works with Ubuntu

[michael norman]

>
> These Linux Emporium-supplied Belkin cards work okay with SuSE 10.0,
> so they should work with 10.1. I had to do a bit of fiddling around in
> YaST to get mine working to start with. I can't remember precisely what
> I did, but I think I had to change something in the hardware config. I
> suspect that I needed to do this as a result of installing the card in
> an already-loaded machine since, when I did a clean reinstall (due to an
> entirely different error on my part), the card worked perfectly with no
> action needed on my part.
>
> BTW when I spoke to Linux Emporium about the cards I was told that not
> all these Belkin cards use a Linux-friendly chipset. So you can't just
> pop down to PC World to get the same card and expect it to work. So
> maybe an email to Belkin to encourage them to be consistently
> Linux-friendly is in order
>
> --
>  All the best,
>  John
For SuSE 10.1 see this

https://linux.wordpress.com/2006/05/14/suse-101-and-rt2500-wi-fi

and I can confirm from my own experience that the cards from PC World do not 
have the Ralink chip.
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