Re: Netgear WG111 USB wifi adapter works with squeeze / gnome

[Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br>]

On Qui, 30 Dez 2010, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> Camaleon -- unfortunately the wifi / USB page you pointed me to specifies
> which chipsets work well with Debian, but not which devices you can buy at a
> store or on Amazon.  I was never able to figure out how to make use of that
> page as most vendors and retailers do not think that the chipset information
> is of vital importance to the buyer, hence it is obscure at the time of
> purchase.
>
> Klistvud -- Here is the output of lsusb:
>
> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0846:4260 NetGear, Inc. WG111v3 54 Mbps Wireless
> [realtek RTL8187B]
>
> So the chipset happens to be one of the ones which is well-supported, but I
> had no way to know this prior to purchase (and believe me, I tried to find
> out).  Fortunately a user posted a review to Amazon saying that it worked
> for him on his linux desktop.

What's worse, the vendors themselves do not care about the chipset,  
often releasing new models with different chipsets but keeping the  
same model number.



--
Time washes clean
Love's wounds unseen.
That's what someone told me;
But I don't know what it means.
		-- Linda Ronstadt, "Long Long Time"

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
eduardo@kalinowski.com.br