From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from vs166246.vserver.de ([62.75.166.246]:48586 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751233AbYBNOfx (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:35:53 -0500 From: Michael Buesch To: Pavel Roskin Subject: Re: Suggestions for USB Wi-Fi device Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:35:18 +0100 Cc: Larry Finger , wireless References: <47B37DEF.3080107@lwfinger.net> <1202951545.8941.53.camel@dv> In-Reply-To: <1202951545.8941.53.camel@dv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200802141535.19085.mb@bu3sch.de> (sfid-20080214_143558_204258_80200021) Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.