Laptop Wifi recommendation (cardbus)

JT Moree moreejt at pcxperience.com
Thu Sep 21 07:37:08 MST 2006


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Eric Richardson wrote:
> 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)

that's ipv6.  note the inet6 addr in the settings.  What do you get if
you run
ifconfig -a

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JT Morée
PC Xperience, Inc.
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