[SLL] USB WiFi and Linux (rt2870)

[Brian C. Lane]

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Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 15:28 -0800, Brian Lane wrote:

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>> Has anyone successfully used a rt2870 based USB WiFi? Do you have any
>> suggestions as to what to try? I'm pretty well out of ideas. Everything
>> I see on the net says 'It works'. Everything I try says 'its a POS'.
> 
> Odd. The exact same Edimax stick in my possession connects to both my
> D-Link DIR-655 802.11n AP w/WPA2 protection here at home, and the
> (Cisco, I think) 802.11G AP('s) w/WEP at the office just fine, gets an
> IP via DHCP, etc. We should be using pretty similar kernels too, F10 and
> F9's latest available update kernels are reasonably well in sync right
> now. I think I've only tried mine on an i686 box, not sure if that's
> relevant or not. Throughput over 802.11n is excellent, actually tends to
> be consistently better than either the iwl4965 in my ThinkPad T61 or the
> iwl5350 in my Acer Aspire One.
> 

I'm using the i686 kernel, -9 release updated just yesterday. When you
set it up did you use NetworkManager or the /etc/Wireless/RA... config
file? The system I need it to work on doesn't have Gnome installed so
I'm using command line for it, but I also tried it on my other F9 system
with Gnome and it didn't show in any of the GUI networking utilities
that I could find.

Thanks,

Brian

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