[wellylug] wireless adapter

[dugan]

Robin,

Thanks for the tip about ndiswrapper.  I got the two dse cards working with 
it.  The results with suse 9.3 were not particularly satisfying.  The system 
usually locked up after a few minutes.  I had much better luck on a couple of 
old machines running debian sarge.  There I followed the instructions at--

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/DebianNoCompiles

Bob


On Tuesday 23 August 2005 23:25, Robin Jury wrote:
> dugan wrote:
> > Robin,
> >
> > I started with Suse 9.1 that did not come with the rt2400 module.  I
> > downloaded that from rt2x00.serialmonkey.com, compiled it, installed it
> > and ran ifconfig.  The driver appeared to recognise but the transmitter
> > and receiver refused to turn on.  When I ran the accompanying
> > configuration tool [Rconfig], it did not find the card on its scan. 
> > Serialmonkey recommended the updated version of the rt2400 driver.  The
> > attempt to compile that crashed the system completely.  I decided to
> > update to Suse 9.3 which includes the rt2400 driver.  It recognised the
> > driver.  But the configuration resulted in a segmentation fault, also
> > reported by other posts to the serialmonkey list.  So I gave up.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Monday 15 August 2005 22:40, Robin Jury wrote:
> >>dugan wrote:
> >>>Any recommendations for a wireless card?
> >>>
> >>>A couple weeks ago, I bought a DSE XHB135 card.  It is sold as linux
> >>>compatible, uses the rt2400 chipset.  Since then, I have read a fair bit
> >>>about wireless cards, compiled the module, read a lot of posts,
> >>> installed a new OS [Suse 9.3], all to no avail.
> >>>
> >>>Thanks for any help.
> >>>
> >>>Bob Dugan
> >>
> >>What results are you getting?  Is the card being not being recognised,
> >>or is it a config issue?
> >>
> >>When looking for cards that aren't directly supported by Linux, I have
> >>had some success using the Windows driver with ndiswrapper.
>
> Bob,
>
> Had any more luck with this card?  If you haven't already, do have a go
> using ndiswrapper (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net) as they are
> reporting success with this chipset. You've bought the card so it is
> worth a go. (sorry for the delay in replying, I was looking for a card
> -unsuccessfully- to try this out on).
>
> cheers
>
> Robin