[wellylug] Looking for a wireless network card

[Grant McLean]

On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 13:28 +1200, Martin Wehipeihana wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:31 +1200, Grant McLean wrote:
> > 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

Don't you hate it when the manufacturer starts using a different chipset
and doesn't change the card model number.  I had a similar issue with a
NetGear card I made sure to get a revision 3.0 card because I knew they
were supported by Linux but when I'd installed the card it turned out to
have a completely different (unsupported) chipset in it.  Apparently
revision 3.0 cards marked made in Taiwan were good and revision 3.0
cards marked made in China were not Arrrggghhh!!!

Anyway it sounds like your story had a happy ending.

Cheers
Grant