From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article
, TJ wrote:
>> Anything in the past? Any hints on a search engine? The slower
>> speed you mention implies it's working at USB 1.0 or 1.1 standard.
>> There was support for USB 2.0 in the 2.4.19 kernel (Aug 2002) but
>> USB things didn't take off until the 2.6.0 kernel (Dec 2003).
>I've only had the dongle about a year, a year more recently than I
>switched to Mageia. The driver I downloaded from Realtek is supposed
>to support kernel 3.0.8. Mageia is up to 3.4.something.
76735213 Oct 25 2011 linux-3.0.8.tar.bz2
3.4 is a long term kernel - introduced May 20, 2012, and updated every
week or three - the "latest" update is
80179995 Feb 21 18:12 linux-3.4.33.tar.bz2
while 3.0.x is up to 3.0.66 released a few minutes before 3.4.33.
>Oh, and the manual says all six USB ports are USB 2.0. Newegg
>description says it's USB 2.0, too.
That makes sense - you wouldn't want to try to have a high speed
network connection (802.11n is capable of more than 300 MB/sec)
hobbled by USB 1.x. As a guess, there is a setting messed up with
the driver.
>> there was running water in the kitchen and tiny bathroom only and
>> just two (15 A 120 V) circuits in the fuse box. I got conned
>> into helping re-wire the place.
>My grandfather bought this place in 1948, and they made the place over
>into a duplex, with my parents living upstairs. I've heard stories of
>how they did have indoor plumbing, if you could call having to go
>outside and around to the back of the house "indoor."
Well, it certainly beats a hand pump in the shed at the back of the
kitchen and a two-holer behind the house. That was my fraternal
grandparents place about 20 mile NNW of Philadelphia. I think it was
a 50th anniversary gift from the children that installed an electric
well pump in 1946 or so. The last time I remember visiting that place
was in 1951 and they were still using the privy. I drove by in ~1980
while on a business trip and the house looked unchanged from the road,
but the privy was gone.
>Gramp was a semi-self-taught plumber and electrician, and made money
>on the side installing indoor plumbing and upgrading wiring in the
>area, so he could do the work himself.
I'd guess by then the wiring was "BX" (steel armored cable). We used
that to replace the old "knob and tube" wiring in my sister's house.
>I didn't come along until 1949, and didn't pay attention to such
>things until years after the work was done, so I can't verify the
>stories.
I know it wasn't unusual for the semi-self-taught to do work like
that. I know that my father did some wiring in the house we were
living in in 1945, 'cause that's where I received my "initial
training" in working with BX cable.
>> Yes, I'd expect so, though I've no experience with them. 802.11n
>> would be desirable, but "works with Linux" is the key.
>This dongle is supposed to "work with Linux." I've come to learn the
>painful lesson that there's "works with Linux," and then there's
>"works with Linux." And those two phrases can mean two entirely
>different things.
That is so VERY true. I usually look for stories from users who
actually got the thing to work.
>Found a "new" Dell PCI card on eBay for $10 this morning. Actually a
>re-branded Asus WL 138G V2, which just happens to be the same card I
>have in my brother's computer, and it works great with Linux.
Such a deal!
>Wireless G is all I need. My Linksys router is G. The signal is above
>90% all over the house, and I'm told is fully usable out the windows
>to the veggie stand roughly 100 feet from the house.
802.11g is capable of 54 MB/sec which actually translates to a
practical 20-25 MB/sec through-put. You're probably far enough away
from other wireless links that you don't have interference. This is
running in the 2.4 GHz ISM band along with cordless phones, microwave
ovens, wireless keyboards/mice and Bluetooth stuff. 802.11a is using
the less-crowded 5.7 GHz band, and 802.11n can use either or both bands
combined for more bandwidth. The higher frequency can be an advantage,
but most people wouldn't notice the difference. As for those reported
signal levels - LARGE helping of salt with that. RF people rarely
measure signal levels in linear units (volts or watts or fractions
thereof), preferring a log scale (decibels referenced to a level like
one milliwatt) as being more practical.
>And, it's much faster than my ISP.
Sounds familiar
Old guy
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