[ubuntu-uk] [RESOLVED] PCI Wirless card recommendation

[Tony Arnold]

Allan,

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 21:51 +0100, Allan Day wrote:
> I recently got a Netgear WG311TGE. Worked straight out of the box on 
> Gutsy, which is always pleasant!

hat's good to know! I nearly bought one on Sunday, but the 'Tech Guys'
in PC World couldn't tell me what chip set it used nor would they let me
test it and bring it back if it didn't work! Well, they would if the
seal on the anti-static bag was unbroken!

Regards,
Tony.

> Tony Arnold wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 14:35 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> >   
> >> Can anyone recommend a PCI based Wireless card that is known to work
> >> well with Gutsy, preferably out of the box?
> >>
> >> The recommendation in various places is for RAlink chipset devices
> >> because they have open sourced their drivers, but the drivers on Gutsy
> >> do not work very well and give very poor through put.
> >>
> >> So any non-RAlink devices known to work?
> >>     
> >
> > Rather than replace my card, I decided top follow the advice given by
> > 'terdon' in the comments to bug #134660 on launchpad, i.e., I downloaded
> > the source of the legacy driver, compiled and installed it. It seems to
> > be working! I'm downloading a file at broadband line speeds at the
> > moment, which I could not do before.
> >
> > I may have to re-install the driver if I get a kernel upgrade!
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tony.
> >   
> 
> 
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