From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:35:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802141535.19085.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202951545.8941.53.camel@dv>
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.
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-13 23:31 Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device Larry Finger
2008-02-14 1:12 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-02-14 14:35 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
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