[TriLUG] 802.11n USB Wireless

Joseph Mack NA3T jmack at wm7d.net
Thu Feb 5 15:34:14 EST 2009


On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Craig Taylor wrote:

> What is the best USB 802.11n dongle out there that plays 
> nice with Ubuntu? Are USB wi-fi receivers _ever_ any good?

the madwifi webpage has a note that there will never be a 
linux driver for (presumably atheros) g wifi-usb devices. 
Forget exactly why, but it was something to do with the usb 
interface - either the interface was unknown, or 
undecipherable, or changed too often.

Joe

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