Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device

Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device

[Larry Finger]

The motherboard on my notebook has failed so that my BCM9311 can no longer be accessed. The machine 
is under warranty, but I will be moving around for the next two months and it will not be repaired 
until April. In the interim, I am thinking about acquiring a USB wi-fi device. If you are using such 
a device and it works out-of-the-box on Linux, please send me the make and model. If this model 
comes with different chips, please tell me what I need.

Larry

Re: Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device

[Pavel Roskin]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:31 -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> The motherboard on my notebook has failed so that my BCM9311 can no longer be accessed. The machine 
> is under warranty, but I will be moving around for the next two months and it will not be repaired 
> until April. In the interim, I am thinking about acquiring a USB wi-fi device. If you are using such 
> a device and it works out-of-the-box on Linux, please send me the make and model. If this model 
> comes with different chips, please tell me what I need.

Look for Level One WNC-0301USB.  There are several revisions, but I
checked the Windows drivers, and all appear to have corresponding Linux
drivers: rt73usb, rt2500usb, rtl8187 and zd1211rw.

My device is revision v3.  It's supported by rt73usb driver and works in
Fedora 8 out-of-box (at least with their updated current kernel).

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

Re: Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device

[Michael Buesch]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 02:12:25 Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:31 -0700, Larry Finger wrote:
> > The motherboard on my notebook has failed so that my BCM9311 can no longer be accessed. The machine 
> > is under warranty, but I will be moving around for the next two months and it will not be repaired 
> > until April. In the interim, I am thinking about acquiring a USB wi-fi device. If you are using such 
> > a device and it works out-of-the-box on Linux, please send me the make and model. If this model 
> > comes with different chips, please tell me what I need.
> 
> Look for Level One WNC-0301USB.  There are several revisions, but I
> checked the Windows drivers, and all appear to have corresponding Linux
> drivers: rt73usb, rt2500usb, rtl8187 and zd1211rw.

If you don't need good monitor-mode capabilities, you can use a zd1211 device
like the Longshine LCS-8131G3.
It works pretty good in STA mode. Monitor mode is somewhat broken. It does
filter some MAC addresses in hardware.

-- 
Greetings Michael.