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On Monday 19 February 2007 11:43, Stroller wrote: |
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> On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:19, Mick wrote: |
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> > ... I am trying to |
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> > find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have |
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> > much joy |
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> > with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is |
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> > supported well in Linux. |
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> > Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? |
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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 about my |
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troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, Model No. |
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K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset. I have had some success |
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running it with the rt2x00-9999 drivers from CVS and USE="rt2500usb" (the |
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stable rt2500 crashed my system every time). However, after Christmas the |
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rt2x00 driver has not worked and keeps giving me kernel panics every time I |
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plug it in the USB port, e.g.: |
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http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=18890#18890 |
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I suspect it may have something to do with the 2.6.19 kernel. All different |
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CVS builds that I have tried crashed. Tried to install pre-Christmas builds |
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from the archives, also crashed. Hence I'm fed up being without WiFi for so |
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long and thought of using an Amazon voucher I have handy to get myself a nice |
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cardbus; but this time I would like to make sure that I have something which |
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definitely works with Linux. |
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However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again then I'll use |
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that voucher for something else. :) |
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Thank you all for your helpful advice and links. |
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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 matured |
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enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the suggestion all |
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the same. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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