Re: Wireless USB Adaptor in Linux

From: Magnus Pedersen <bofhenator(at)gmail.com>
Date: Sun Nov 11 2007 - 12:55:36 EST

William Thomas wrote:
> Magnus Pedersen wrote:
>

>> The wl-167g from asus uses the rt2570 driver witch is available via 
>> moduleassistant. I use it with no problems on a couple of debian 
>> machines.

>
> Did you manage to compile the driver with module-assistant? It didn't
> work for me. I had to compile the driver "by hand". m-a couldn't find
> sources.
>
> Nevertheless it works fine with a very good performance.
>
> By now the are also pre-compiled modules in unstable.
>
> The settings have to be done with iwpriv. network-manager doesn't work etc.
>
> The new driver rt73usb from package rt2x00-source with the new wireless
> stack is very buggy yet.
>
>
> William
>
>

I had no problems on etch with m-a, but on Lenny the driver wont compile in m-a.

/Magnus

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