On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 18:15 -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > The Trendnet TEW-424B is now version 3.1R, and contains a RealTek > 8187B ( lsusb 0bda:8189 ) rather than the Zydas ZD1211RW . > So it should leave the list. Ugly. Should we have both on there maybe with a version number? Daniel? We can list the other one for rtl8187b too. > I've ordered two more USB wireless devices from other sources. > They claim to use Zydas chip sets. One claims ZD1211B ; I hope > that works with the driver. I will let you know if they work. Great, thanks. > I also hope that someone will make a version of the Realtek driver > that works properly with Network Manager, and backport it to the > 2.6.24 (Ubuntu 8.04 and others) kernel. Who should I encourage? Uh, that's unlikely to happen, unless compat-old (see the Download page on the wiki) works on that kernel. > A friend of mine owns the small company Invictus Networks, which > specializes in wifi hardware. He helps us provide free community > wireless networking in Portland Oregon USA ( www.personaltelco.net ). > Perhaps I can advise him on Linux compatable models of Wireless > USB devices. Then we can keep him up to date on devices and > chipsets, and buy from him. Can you suggest some companies and > model numbers known to have Linux compatable chipsets in the > products that are for sale now? Perhaps you can set up part of > your wiki for people to report recent successes (with dates, so > we can see how old the information is). I'm not sure how we'd keep that information usable, I think we should rather try to maintain the list maybe with device versions? johannes
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