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On 19 Feb 2007, at 23:15, Mick wrote: |
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>> ... |
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>> You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you |
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>> that they do a "set" (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are |
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>> excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are |
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>> OSS & you can get them with `emerge rt2500`. |
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> Well, I didn't want to bore you - I think I may have already posted |
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> about my |
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> troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, |
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> Model No. |
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> K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset ... |
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> |
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> However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again |
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> then I'll use |
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> that voucher for something else. :) |
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I can't comment on that, although it doesn't particularly surprise |
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me. I know the drivers for the USB RaLink chipsets are less mature |
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than those for the PCI & Cardbus cards - when I first started using |
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those (100% success on the Belkin cards under Gentoo, very easy to |
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get going) work on the BSD USB drivers was only just beginning. |
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>> I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in |
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>> advance regarding shipping: |
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>> <http://networkned.co.uk/Belkin_Cardbus.php> |
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>> FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. |
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> Having been burned once I would rather go for something which has |
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> matured |
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> enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the |
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> suggestion all |
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> the same. |
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I don't think you're going to be terribly lucky with that. I'm only |
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familiar with the 3 drivers I mentioned - and I know there's an OSS |
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driver available for an Intel chipset, too - but of those 3 only the |
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prism54 was in the main kernel last time I checked, and cards with |
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that chipset that are getting quite hard to get hold of. I have never |
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seen a prism54 cardbus card. |
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I appreciate your concerns, but honestly a rt2500 cardbus (or PCI) |
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card is a safe bet - these drivers are very mature. I'm guessing that |
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driver design for USB devices is more complicated &/or widely less |
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well-understood than for devices using the "more traditional" PCI or |
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cardbus busses (in fact, I think PCI & cardbus are substantially the |
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same from the computer's point-of-view). I'd be very surprised if you |
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were to plug on of these cards into your machine and `emerge rt2500 |
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&& modprobe rt2500 & iwconfig` failed to show it. |
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Stroller. |
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