USB wireless adaptor (802.11g)
Larry Grover
lgrover at zoominternet.net
Tue Mar 7 14:20:53 UTC 2006
Shu Hung (Koala) wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm planning to buy a USB wireless adaptor
> for my laptop but hesitated. I don't know
> what model should I go for and how exactly
> should I deploy the adaptor.
>
> Any suggestion on adaptor's model?
> Any good documentation on installation?
> (It would be great if the adaptor JUST WORK
> with ubuntu)
>
>
> Thanks,
> Koala Yeung
>
I bought a usb wireless adapter just a couple of weeks ago. It was not
easy to decide what to buy. Wireless usb support in the linux kernel
seems rather patchy. I needed a device with a native linux driver
(ndiswrapper was not an option), and the manufacturers certainly do not
make it easy to figure out what chipsets they use in their products.
I started with this wiki page:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsWirelessNetworkCards?action=show&redirect=WirelessNetworkCards
There is a section on wireless usb adapters near the bottom of the page.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any of the adapters listed on the wiki
page. But while I was searching for a supplier for one of them, I came
across this page, for the Prismiq WUA-11G sold by Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833198003
There are two customer reviews on this page, and they both said it
worked on their linux systems, so I took a gamble and ordered one. I
was very pleased to find out that it did, in fact, "just work", at least
on the two systems I tested it on: powerpc (iBook) running
ubuntu-dapper and and x86 system running breezy.
The Prismiq WUA-11G uses a zd1211 chip, so I imagine any wireless usb
adapter using this chip should also work. There is a list of devices
using this chip here: http://zd1211.ath.cx/
Regards,
Larry
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