On 1/1/06, Alberto Botti <alberto.botti@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Don't forget that Ralink cards are some of the better supported wireless
> interfaces available for Linux, having a completely GPL driver which
> doesn't need external binary firmware.
>
>
A while back I managed to get a DLink working within a few hours.
Took a LOT of searching and scrambling through convoluted (even for
unix) docs, websites, and forums to get there but once I found out
everything I needed it was pretty easy...it just worked. So anyway, I
know there is better even if you sometimes need that HAL component.
Setting up a wireless connection in Linux seems a lot harder than it
needs to be. Certainly the documentation on it could be much better.
If I knew what the hell I was doing with it maybe I could figure out
more about why it is breaking but I can't find any really good docs on
this stuff. The HOWTO kinda sucks... and people complain about audio
being hard to figure out :P
At any rate, its off topic now I think because the interrupt problem
is not what is at issue anymore now that I realized I was still
loading an old driver. That older driver actually says not to use SMP
or PREEMPT so...
Thanks for the help guys. I might try a few more things but I'm
pretty close to giving up on this card and trying a different
one...maybe I can get a DLink like the one I already got working once
before.
Received on Mon Jan 2 04:15:06 2006
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