On 1/1/06, Alberto Botti <alberto.botti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Don't forget that Ralink cards are some of the better supported wireless > interfaces available for Linux, having a completely GPL driver which > doesn't need external binary firmware. > > A while back I managed to get a DLink working within a few hours. Took a LOT of searching and scrambling through convoluted (even for unix) docs, websites, and forums to get there but once I found out everything I needed it was pretty easy...it just worked. So anyway, I know there is better even if you sometimes need that HAL component. Setting up a wireless connection in Linux seems a lot harder than it needs to be. Certainly the documentation on it could be much better. If I knew what the hell I was doing with it maybe I could figure out more about why it is breaking but I can't find any really good docs on this stuff. The HOWTO kinda sucks... and people complain about audio being hard to figure out :P At any rate, its off topic now I think because the interrupt problem is not what is at issue anymore now that I realized I was still loading an old driver. That older driver actually says not to use SMP or PREEMPT so... Thanks for the help guys. I might try a few more things but I'm pretty close to giving up on this card and trying a different one...maybe I can get a DLink like the one I already got working once before.
