Re: [Hampshire] Edimax Wireless card?

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Author: John Hunt
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Edimax Wireless card?
I have this card in my media pc, it's well supported and reliable.

On 18/02/07, Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> On Sunday 18 February 2007 14:12, Andy Random wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, Tim wrote:
> > > This is the same card as I am having problems with at the moment, it uses
> > > the rt2500 chip which from everything I have read (and John confirmed)
> > > works.
> >
> > Thanks Tim, that is useful to know, though I'm not sure whether I find
> > that encouraging or not...
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Feb 2007, John Cooper wrote:
> > > I have to compile my own rt2500 driver for every new kernel I install.
> >
> > I definitely don't find that encouraging, I have absolutely no interest in
> > compiling my own drivers!
> >
> > However a quick google on Ubuntu and rt2500 provides a help.ubuntu.com
> > page which claims the following "Since Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) the
> > rt2500 driver is installed out of the box"
> >
> > > I use WEP as I'm not sure the rt2500 can cope with anything else.
> >
> > The same page suggests the rt2500 supports WPA or WEP.
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500
> >
> > So its probably worth 12 quid to get one and try it...
> >
> > Andy
>
> Try this site
>
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>
> Tim
>
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