[TriLUG] Failing at Ubuntu Wireless Adapter Crap Shoot

[Carl Crider]

This is what I use in the Ubuntu media center box as well. TP Link card with
an Atheros chip. Sourced at Intrex.




On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Scott Chilcote wrote:
>
>  We happen to already have a wireless network, so I thought I'd buy a USB
>> wireless network adapter for it and go online.
>>
>
> USB wireless adapters are hard in Linux. Not so long ago I saw a posting on
> one of the developer's lists saying that there'd never be a linux usb wifi
> dongle (they weren't going to do through the pain of doing it).
>
> I have a pci wireless card in one of my machines playing the same role - an
> Atheros AR500G which I bought from Intrex in Durham. I think it was called a
> TP Link something or other and it runs the madwifi drivers
>
> Joe
>
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