[Wylug-discuss] follow-ups to conversations last night

[Nigel Metheringham]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:17 +0000, James Holden wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 10:45:09AM +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > These are Belkin devices which are based on the RT2500 chipset.  Also
> > available at PC World/Dixons etc.  I have a PC Card variant and its
> > working well, although I am having a few problems getting WPA working
> > (which may be an issue with my router).
> > 
> > See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Rt2500WirelessCardsHowTo for some info on
> > the cards.
> 
> I have a very cheap Cable & Wireless branded 54Mb card bought for
> £19.99 from Comet. It's also RT2500 based and it's pretty good. The
> RT2500 driver is GPL released by the manufacturer and works very well.

The problem with wireless cards (and wireless kit fitted to laptops
etc), is that some manufacturers appear to change their supplier (and
chipset) on a frequent basis without making any changes to the model
number, packaging etc.  I'm hoping that the Belkin's are stable.

BTW the RT2500 appears to be supported out of the box in Debian
derivatives and require modules building for RH derivatives.  Hopefully
it will go into mainline kernel soon which will make life easier all
round.

The Belkin cards are also going (Dixons) at sub £20 prices (4p cheaper
than your C&W one I think :-) ).

	Nigel.
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