[ILUG] Best WIFI card for linux?

[Stephen Brooks]

Conor Wynne wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2008, at 14:47, Stephen Brooks wrote:
>
>>
>> It's an rt73, I'm using it right now.  I did have issue with Ubuntu 
>> 7.10 included drivers though, it would randomly drop connection.  
>> Currently using the serialmonkey drivers though requires a bit of 
>> work to get working though fine it you don't mind compiling and 
>> inserting modules.  I've used the Ralink provided drivers in the past 
>> as well though requires similar compilation and insertion.
>>
>
> Well I have ordered two of them now, so I guess I wont mind compiling 
> em. :-)
>
> I have a ton of distros downloaded now, OpenSUSE 10, ubuntu 7.10, 
> debian 3.x, all the RHEL flavours (but wont be using them as they wont 
> have access to rhn for updates, I shall not be giving them access 
> either (I'm funny that way), maybe centOS though, if rhel works well.
>
> Do you know if the source code has dkms support? This would be a fine 
> solution as each kernel update would automagically compile and link 
> em. That way I would not have to worry about such things. Not my PC 
> remember...
I don't, though I have seen 3rd party dkms about for rt2500 so possibly 
not a million miles away.  I'm using the enhanced legacy driver 
http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/rt73-cvs-daily.tar.gz  Didn't have time 
at the time for doing a full rt2x00 build so took the easy route 
(currently running WPAPSK) if you need a example interfaces config file 
let me know.  Serialmonkey also has a little util called RutilT for 
populating it.

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