From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJW1Q-0007V3-IF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:31:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1KETw4F029872; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:29:58 GMT Received: from compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (213-152-39-90.dsl.eclipse.net.uk [213.152.39.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1KELaMF018242 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:21:37 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.71] (funf.stroller.uk.eu.org [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDC213770F for ; Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:19:54 +0000 (GMT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) In-Reply-To: <200702192317.35690.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <200702182319.05821.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <6517DD24-6C81-4548-99B8-BE6A9046AC83@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200702192317.35690.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <01D78D09-AF9E-4D7C-8116-8D6D89FB17DD@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stroller Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus? Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:21:34 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Archives-Salt: d31972f7-88cd-4d94-9db7-ce168b307158 X-Archives-Hash: 1bf0af65ae2b574b076fa50ed859e4f1 On 19 Feb 2007, at 23:15, Mick wrote: >> ... >> You don't state which model of Belkin you tried, but I can assure you >> that they do a "set" (USB, cardbus, PCI) of 802.11g cards that are >> excellently supported by the rt2500 drivers. These are excellent, are >> OSS & you can get them with `emerge rt2500`. > > Well, I didn't want to bore you - I think I may have already posted > about my > troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, > Model No. > K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset ... > > However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again > then I'll use > that voucher for something else. :) I can't comment on that, although it doesn't particularly surprise me. I know the drivers for the USB RaLink chipsets are less mature than those for the PCI & Cardbus cards - when I first started using those (100% success on the Belkin cards under Gentoo, very easy to get going) work on the BSD USB drivers was only just beginning. >> I recommend this card, but if you're outside the UK contact in >> advance regarding shipping: >> >> FULL DISCLOSURE: I am involved with this supplier. > > Having been burned once I would rather go for something which has > matured > enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the > suggestion all > the same. I don't think you're going to be terribly lucky with that. I'm only familiar with the 3 drivers I mentioned - and I know there's an OSS driver available for an Intel chipset, too - but of those 3 only the prism54 was in the main kernel last time I checked, and cards with that chipset that are getting quite hard to get hold of. I have never seen a prism54 cardbus card. I appreciate your concerns, but honestly a rt2500 cardbus (or PCI) card is a safe bet - these drivers are very mature. I'm guessing that driver design for USB devices is more complicated &/or widely less well-understood than for devices using the "more traditional" PCI or cardbus busses (in fact, I think PCI & cardbus are substantially the same from the computer's point-of-view). I'd be very surprised if you were to plug on of these cards into your machine and `emerge rt2500 && modprobe rt2500 & iwconfig` failed to show it. Stroller. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list