[svlug] Can someone recommend a Linux supporting PCI wirelesscard?

[Mark]

I just bought an Airlink101 "802.11g Wireless PCI Adapter" at Fry's.
The model number is AWLH3026T. It is based on the RaLink RT2561/RT61 chipset, which has a native linux driver available for
download: http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html 
You can probably buy any other card based on that chipset (maybe even another chipset of the same manufacturer) and it should work
the same way.
I was able to compile and install the thing relatively easily under CentOS 5, which is more or less the same as Fedora.

I do not have all the exact steps any more, but I did it based on this doc:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-install-and-configure-dlink-dwl-g-520-wireless-lan-pci-card.html
Make sure to read the comments if you get stuck, because there are some valuable tips there as well.
I could not get the compiled module to load right away, but I googled the error and found a solution.
I will have to do the same thing again on another machine in the next two weeks, so I will post a step-by-step once I get to that.

These two might help as well:
http://suseforums.net/index.php?showtopic=30424
http://susewiki.org/index.php?title=Talk:Setting_up_RT61_or_RT2500_Wireless_Cards

MARK
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: svlug-bounces+msalists=gmx.net at lists.svlug.org 
> [mailto:svlug-bounces+msalists=gmx.net at lists.svlug.org] On 
> Behalf Of Joel Seidman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 11:02 PM
> To: Roland Krause; svlug at lists.svlug.org
> Subject: Re: [svlug] Can someone recommend a Linux supporting 
> PCI wirelesscard?
> 
> 
> --- Roland Krause <rokrau at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > I need to buy a PCI wireless card. Any recommendations? I 
> prefer to buy from
> > a Vendor that supports Linux and if that's not available 
> I'd go for soemthing
> > easy as in: "Walk into Fry's/MicroCenter, pick up the card, 
> pay, install,
> > modprobe  blah... system-config-network blah blah blah....
> > 
> > It's a brand new box, so  I am going to run whatever the 
> latest Fedora Core
> > is that is out when the thing finally arrives.
> > 
> > I'd like to know what you have recently bought and what 
> works well. I have
> > access points (Netgear and Linksys WRT54GL. 
> > 
> > Thanks for your input.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Roland
> >
> Here's my limited experience.
> 
> On an impulse, I bought a D-Link DWL-G510 at Fry's earlier 
> this year. I picked
> it only because it was the lowest price after rebate, without 
> even knowing if
> it would work with Linux. I got lucky. The h/w version is B1, 
> which contains an
> Atheros chip set. Different versions can have different chip 
> sets, so just
> knowing the model number may not be sufficient. Linux has a 
> driver for the
> Atheros chip set, and the card worked out of the box on my 
> Kubuntu computer. (I
> don't remember doing anything specific to make it work. I may 
> have had to
> install knetworkmanager to make WPA work; I'm not sure if 
> that comes with the
> latest version of Kubuntu, but it is easily added.) D-Link 
> doesn't specifically
> support Linux, according to the box, which only mentions Windows.
> 
> I can't say quantitatively how good the performance is, but 
> it does work well
> over about 20 feet through a couple walls in my house. It 
> picks up neighborhood
> AP's, but I can't connect with any (even the open ones). 
> Kismet (signal sniffer
> program) works fine with it.
> 
> I was very displeased with the long rebate delay. There are 
> some negative
> comments about D-Link on the web, and I suggest you Google 
> for user comments on
> whatever brand/model you select.
> 
> FYI, the Usenet group alt.internet.wireless has some very 
> knowledgeable people,
> including with Linux background. I highly recommend you ask 
> your question
> there, too.
> 
> -- Joel
> 
> 
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