On Thursday 14 February 2008 02:12:25 Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 16:31 -0700, Larry Finger wrote: > > The motherboard on my notebook has failed so that my BCM9311 can no longer be accessed. The machine > > is under warranty, but I will be moving around for the next two months and it will not be repaired > > until April. In the interim, I am thinking about acquiring a USB wi-fi device. If you are using such > > a device and it works out-of-the-box on Linux, please send me the make and model. If this model > > comes with different chips, please tell me what I need. > > Look for Level One WNC-0301USB. There are several revisions, but I > checked the Windows drivers, and all appear to have corresponding Linux > drivers: rt73usb, rt2500usb, rtl8187 and zd1211rw. If you don't need good monitor-mode capabilities, you can use a zd1211 device like the Longshine LCS-8131G3. It works pretty good in STA mode. Monitor mode is somewhat broken. It does filter some MAC addresses in hardware. -- Greetings Michael. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
