Wireless USB Adaptor

[Matthew Vermeulen]

On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Simon Ives <simon at simonives.info> wrote:

> Recently the Broadcom chip-set based wireless card in my notebook
> decided to die.  One of the circuits actually fried somehow!  Anyhow,
> has anyone had any success with Wireless USB adaptors under Ubuntu?  At
> home my wireless router is a D-Link DSL-G604T capable of both 802.11b
> and 802.11g.  I'm not sure of what wireless technology is in use at Uni
> (Uni of QLD and ANU) though.  I'd need an adaptor capable of connecting
> to both networks.  I'm currently using LAN at home but I'll need some
> way of accessing the wireless at Uni after the holidays.
>
> If this helps at all, I have a netgear wg111 (
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Adapters/GWirelessAdapters/WG111.aspx) usb
wireless adaptor which works out of the box on my desktop (plug it in and 20
seconds later it's all set up). However, there may be some other versions of
this (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Device/NetgearWG111) so
that may be something to consider.

Cheers,

Matt

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