802.11g that works out of the box

[Dan Lund]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 9:18 PM,  <fouldragon at aol.com> wrote:

>  Are there any cards, aside from another RT61 card, which will really
>  work just out of the box?  Did the installer not install every driver?
>  (I thought usually distribution installers dumped everything on)
>

Well, just short of out of the box, there is a downloadable driver set
from http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com for the RT73 chipset.  I picked up
an EDIMAX wireless USB card from linuxemporium.co.uk (alot named at
http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless) in order to get
something non-pci and wireless for Linux.  Not cheap, was 22.95
pounds.  It's really an astounding USB wireless, can stay on for weeks
without overheating.  Though they do have EDIMAX pci wireless which is
19.45 pounds which has the RT2561 chipset.  They both come with the
drivers for Linux on CD from the rt22x00.serialmonkey.com site
downloads.  Ubuntu is pretty tight with this one it seems.  I use
CentOS and Gentoo, and the source is compilable against linux kernel
code and installs fine on both.

Install is easy for the driver, just untar, cd to the directory and
"make && make install".  Modprobe'ing the driver needed from it and
bam!  kernel sees it.

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Thanks,
Dan Lund