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| From | Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.hardware |
| Subject | Re: choice of wireless adapter |
| Date | 2013-02-15 21:38 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <kfm9sm$131$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <87obfmfql2.fsf@engels.HistoricalMaterialism.info> <kfljfv$kjv$1@news.albasani.net> |
root <NoEMail@home.org> wrote: > Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> wrote: >> I know this is a FAQ, but despite guidance, I've only met frustration. >> >> I had a Netgear 802.11b which worked after I used the orinoco driver, >> but then it began to drop the connection, requiring reboots. >> >> I looked for a PCI card that would work with Debian out of the box >> (kernel driver), and purchased a Gigabyte Wireless 802.11G Lan >> Pci because it was highly recommended. Unfortunately the information was >> old, and this model no longer works at all. >> >> It seems the cards that work well are ones with RaLink chipsets. Do I >> understand that the RaLink chip is on the Rosewill cards? I'm going to >> try a Rosewill RNX-300x. Is this supported by a kernel module, or do I >> have to install a RaLink driver? >> >> Haines Brown > > I just bought a Rosewill RNX-N150PCe which uses the Atheros driver. > It does not work out of the box. Previously I bought an Asus card > which used a Ralink/Realtek driver and it did not work either. > > According to what I have read, both cards were properly recognized > and the correct drivers were installed, but wicd did not see > any networks. All of my old wireless G cards work fine. > > Good luck. Did you try changing the interface? There's a stupid udev script which associate an interface with the MAC address, so if you had wlan0, when you use a different card it will become wlan1. Wicd is still trying to use wlan0, so you don't see any networks. I get burned by this idiocy when I clone a system to another computer. See /lib/udev/rules.d/*persistent*. Jerry
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choice of wireless adapter Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2013-02-14 18:00 -0500
Re: choice of wireless adapter root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-02-15 15:16 +0000
Re: choice of wireless adapter Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2013-02-15 21:38 +0000
Re: choice of wireless adapter root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-02-15 22:57 +0000
Re: choice of wireless adapter Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2013-02-15 20:24 -0500
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