[TriLUG] Failing at Ubuntu Wireless Adapter Crap Shoot

[Steve Litt]

What I try to do is find an older USB wifi dongle to plug into my new laptop, 
knowing that within a year or two Ubuntu will package drivers for my new 
computer's native built-in wifi.

SteveT

On Friday 05 March 2010 12:08:15 Scott Chilcote wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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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