Markus Kesaromous wrote:
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To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
From: walrus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:11:56 -0400
Subject: Re: A good desktop Wi-Fi card for Fedora 10
Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 08/21/2009 03:52 PM, William M. Quarles wrote:
Does anybody know of a good desktop PCI wireless ethernet card that I
can buy and use with Fedora 10?
Just happened to see one in today's NewEgg mailer for $15:
http://is.gd/2wuqo
I've had good luck with ralink myself. A comment there says 2.6.24 or
better.
Sounds good. Are there any PCI producta that you specifically know of
available with the Ralink chipset that also support the 5 GHz band?
Thanks,
William
Please be aware that ralink 27xx and 28xx and beyond are not supported by fedora. Everytime fedora kernel is updated, you will have to rebuild the ralink driver for that updated kernel. And it is not just a matter of running make xconfig to enable the rt2860 driver in the staging area, and then
building the kernel. You will have to "enable" wpa_supplicant settings in ralink's config.mk file like this:
# Support Wpa_Supplicant
HAS_WPA_SUPPLICANT=y
# Support Native WpaSupplicant for Network Maganger
HAS_NATIVE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_SUPPORT=y
before you start the kernel build.
If you have multiple production systems that you wish to install this
card on, you might want to choose a pci card that is currently supported by the madwifi driver or by the ath9k driver.
Good luck.
Unfortunately, as stated earlier (from the beginning?) of this thread, I
tried an Atheros card, and I could not get it to work with my DVD
decoder card installed. The system would lock up every time once the
drivers were loaded, both in Windows XP and in Fedora 10, and even when
the cards were sitting on separate IRQs. I'd be happy to try other
chipsets, but I don't know which brands contain which chipsets. If
someone could point me to a PCI card that uses a non-Atheros chipset and
is dual-band, I'll buy it. Otherwise, could someone tell me how to find
one of these cards that are supported by Linux yet do not use Atheros?
Thanks,
William
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