Re: wireless - is it possible?
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* Default User [Sat, Apr 28 2007, 04:04:41PM]:
> Easy question: has anyone been able to get any currently available wifi
> USB or PCMCIA adapter to work with a 2004 Toshiba Satellite M35X-S109
> laptop (no built-in wifi), using Debian Etch?
>
> Very hard question: if so, how were you able to do it?
>
> I have tried a Netgear MA111 (v1?) USB adapter. I have only been able to
> get it to work "out of the box" with OpenBSD (any recent distribution),
> and Freespire 1.0.13 (before the switch to an Ubuntu base).
>
> I have also tried a Netgear WG111 (v2) adapter. To date, it won't work
> "out of the box" with any of many non-M$ OSes tried.
We tried several sticks at my previous university and most of them
sucked. Some of those Netgear have been supported by the free drivers,
other (v1 rev. 2 or so) have not been supported anymore but ndiswrapper
did the trick, but some has been working and some didn't, and IIRC none
of v2 did work.
For ralink based ones, I have a mixed feeling. An old ASUS stick did
work with an old driver, but a more recent driver screwed up something
in the kernel and made it first loose the keyboard control and then
crash, after just replugging the stick two or three times. A newer
stick with Ralink chipset (IIRC from D-Link) was not really supported
either: driver loads, the interface is created but no data is transfered
after that.
Well, and the best experience we had was with the cheapest stick from
MSI having some Zydas chipset (IIRC MSI US54SE). Stick inserted, WEP or
WPA configured, WORKS! They are still not perfect, in a certain
combination (old Cisco AP and WEP mode) the data transfers got stuck
after few minutes and the stick has been restarted (messages about
reseting the SoftMAC in the kernel log). However, there was no such
trouble with in plain or WPA mode, IIRC.
Regards,
Eduard.
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