Laptop Wifi recommendation (cardbus)

[Eric Richardson]

Boy o Boy,
This is much harder than I thought.
I picked up a Belkin F5D7010 ver.6000 and it has a RaLink RT2561/RT61
802.11 PCI. This could take the rt61 driver legacy or the rt2x00. I'm
using Debian Testing etchand the kernel is 2.6.16 but to build the
rt2x00 it takes 2.6.17 which is suppose to be the target default kernel
for testing but it is not there as an image. I build the rt2500 code and
the module loads and the card shows up as sit0.
sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          inet6 addr: ::10.0.0.3/96 Scope:Compat
          inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
          UP RUNNING NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I have no idea how to iwconfig so I could just look around for access
points (AP) or anything. I'm clueless and I don't have an AP.
Anyway,
Happy Hacking.



On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:40 -0700, JT Moree wrote:
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> Eric Richardson wrote:
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> > link to the kernel I don't know how they do that exactly. Anyway, I care
> > to stay as far away as I can from that so the Free Software friendly
> > hardware I found is made by Ralink http://ralinktech.com/ and uses the
> > rt2x00.serialmonkey.com driver. There is a list of cards at  
> > http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html. This link
> > points to http://ralink.rapla.net which is a bit more thorough.
> 
> thanks for the links.
> 
> I also prefer to use OS drivers but the laptops I have been getting have
> broadcom chips so I use ndiswrapper with the 64bit windows driver.  i
> hope the new broadcom drivers in the kernel start working in the 6.10
> release of k/ubuntu.
> 
> - --
> JT Morée
> PC Xperience, Inc.
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