[ubuntu-uk] PCI Wirless card recommendation

[Mark Fraser]

On Monday 22 October 2007 16:01:48 Tony Arnold wrote:
> Mac,
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:49 +0100, Mac wrote:
> > I wonder if Al's reading this.  I'll remind him what he told me.
> >   ;-)
> >
> > Alan Pope wrote:
> >  > Hi Mac,
> >  >
> >  > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 +0100, Mac wrote:
> >  >> For example, linuxemporium recommends Edimax.  I bought one some time
> >  >> ago, but it didn't work 'out of the box' with Feisty.  It doesn't
> >  >> work 'out of the box' with Gutsy live CD.  So I'm sceptical of
> >  >> anything that doesn't come with an 'I've actually seen this working'
> >  >> recommendation.
> >  >
> >  > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500
> >  >
> >  > "The easiest way to get your wireless working if you have rt2500-based
> >  > wireless is to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10. Everything works out of the
> >  > box, including WPA."
>
> It kind of worked but with poor throughput!
>
> > Luckily, I haven't started trying to install Gutsy with the Edimax
> > RAlink card yet.  In the same thread, Steve Drake said
>
> The Edimax cards from the Linux Emporium use the RT2561 chi set. It's
> not clear to me whether these suffer the same problems as the RT2500
> chip set device that I have.

I've got a RT61 based card and I have to disable and then re-enable the card 
in the control centre when I login and every so often. Hope this gets fixed 
smartish, I'm going to be buying another card to put in a new machine I just 
built.