[wellylug] Looking for a wireless network card

[Martin Wehipeihana]

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:31 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:21 +1200, Martin Wehipeihana wrote:
> > Martin Wehipeihana wrote:
> > > any suggestions
> > > prefer to buy local
> > > 
> > Doh ... should have added pcmcia for my lappy
> > 
> > 
> I've had good experiences with the Ralink rt2500 chipset.  There's a GPL
> driver that should be standard with most distros (certainly works with
> Ubuntu).  The driver also directly supports WPA so no need to mess
> around with the supplicant stuff.
> 
> The specific card I have is a Level One WPC-0301 which I bought from
> Ascent (ItemID=200410).

Thanks for this, ordered the card Friday, arrived Saturday. Couldnt get
it to work with FC5 so installed Ubuntu 5.10.

All working nicely, sending this email from wireless lappy.

Only gotcha was card has Ralink rt61 chipset not rt2500 ... apart from
that .... its all sweet

Cheers

Martin