[wellylug] native 802.11g PCMCIA cards?

[Rob van der Linde]

I have an Edimax EW-7608Pg, which is based on the Ralink (I think 2500)
chipset, it works very well with Ubuntu 8.10 out of the box.

http://ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?ItemID=346922

I can't remember which version of Ubuntu it was, either 8.04 or 7.10
where the card would work but only connect at 1mbps, the workaround was
to install the linux-backports-modules package from the backports
repository.  For some reason the Ubuntu release before that didn't have
that problem, it was only that one particular release that had that
problem, so check your connection speed, and if it's 1mpbs install that
package.

The card works out of the box at full speed on Ubuntu 8.10 though.

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 20:55 +1300, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> I'm running Kubuntu 8.04.1 on my machines.  Can anyone tell me what
> PCMCIA cards I can get that use native Linux drivers as opposed to
> ndiswrapper?  I mean cards I can get in NZ, although I suppose I could
> buy some overseas and have them shipped if that's the way to get the
> ones with the best support.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bret
> 
> 
> 
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