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 1HJHqu-0000PA-Ly for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:23:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1JNMH1f008925; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:22:17 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1JNHsOd004168 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:17:54 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id z38so671448ugc for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:17:53 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=H2UY2HwJTn3XJarQuqnPfWbmkf8sjmd/CXUahdXnfZtZNiX4Fzy8pPoerGT1TGo0o5Fsux8aYUONb9WOjk2dMM+Vq4abDwhRIraMbOLBGsMrivrv1YPflD23LZw9Tz9iRNtQfKE/uSbFo7Urqowk7bRi2t8mgzQy3DfbLsbL+Kg= Received: by 10.67.117.2 with SMTP id u2mr7423402ugm.1171927073874; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:17:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id z40sm7965565ugc.2007.02.19.15.17.52; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:17:53 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Which wireless cardbus? Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:15:59 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200702182319.05821.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <6517DD24-6C81-4548-99B8-BE6A9046AC83@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <6517DD24-6C81-4548-99B8-BE6A9046AC83@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2865787.irRkPI75yv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702192317.35690.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: f86f83ea-ac45-4777-b952-921270f0d12a X-Archives-Hash: 296244ead86a3b7e9816052ea9aafd36 --nextPart2865787.irRkPI75yv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 19 February 2007 11:43, Stroller wrote: > On 18 Feb 2007, at 23:19, Mick wrote: > > ... I am trying to > > find out which WiFi cardbus to buy for my laptop. I didn't have > > much joy > > with a Belkin and would like to get a card which has a chipset that is > > supported well in Linux. > > > > Which chipsets have the more mature drivers? > > 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 m= y=20 troubles with it in the past. It is a Belkin USB WiFi adaptor, Model No.=20 K7SF5D7050A, which seems to have a RaLink chipset. I have had some success= =20 running it with the rt2x00-9999 drivers from CVS and USE=3D"rt2500usb" (the= =20 stable rt2500 crashed my system every time). However, after Christmas the= =20 rt2x00 driver has not worked and keeps giving me kernel panics every time I= =20 plug it in the USB port, e.g.: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=3D18890#18890 I suspect it may have something to do with the 2.6.19 kernel. All differen= t=20 CVS builds that I have tried crashed. Tried to install pre-Christmas build= s=20 from the archives, also crashed. Hence I'm fed up being without WiFi for s= o=20 long and thought of using an Amazon voucher I have handy to get myself a ni= ce=20 cardbus; but this time I would like to make sure that I have something whic= h=20 definitely works with Linux. However, if you have any ideas to make my Belkin USB work again then I'll u= se=20 that voucher for something else. :) Thank you all for your helpful advice and links. > 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=20 enough to be in the kernel, if possible, but thank you for the suggestion a= ll=20 the same. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2865787.irRkPI75yv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF2jAP5Fp0QerLYPcRAoOeAJ4qunvoSb3kyqd9ylUgfLaAIHyVLACgxDpp Tq7ygTGRSDATcKCDA9IhLbY= =f4Ma -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2865787.irRkPI75yv-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list