[TriLUG] Failing at Ubuntu Wireless Adapter Crap Shoot

[Scott Chilcote]

Hi Carl, Joe, and others...

FWIW, the current TP-Link USB adapter carried by Intrex is the WN422G 
V2.  It has an Atheros chipset (AR9271) for which the driver is still in 
development.  It was the first new one I tried, cheap at $20 with a nice 
antenna.  I hope they get the driver completed soon.  Seems donation 
worthy IMO.

Before that I tried a D-Link USB adapter that my wife bought for an old 
laptop.  It's based on a Ralink chipset that is well supported, but 
stopped working (connection fails) in Ubuntu Jaunty and newer releases. 
  There's an open bug report for it, but no signs of any activity in 
over a year.

By the way, my effort to create a point-to-point bridge between a 
DD-WRTed WRT54GL and a Netgear WG602 wireless bridge is a washout so 
far.  I can get the Netgear to say it's bridging, and it lists the 
Linksys as a bridged router.  But the internet packets, they do not 
propagate.  Alas.

It's a thicket out there folks.

    Scott C.



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