From: TJ@noneofyour.business
On 02/23/2013 11:39 AM, TJ wrote:
> On 02/22/2013 02:55 PM, Moe Trin wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in
>> article
>> , TJ wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I looked at the changelog for that new kernel, and I saw that they did
>>> something with the rtl8192cu module, the one that never worked right
>>> for me. Memory is fuzzy, but I believe it said something like "changed
>>> USB ID." Does that make sense?
>>
>> That's sounds like a back-port that hadn't made it into your previous
>> kernel - nothing that significant. (There was a USB ID added to the
>> driver - 050d:11f2 - as a clone/rebadge of an existing Belkin device.)
>>
> Didn't help - the open source driver still doesn't work with the drakx
> tools, and I don't feel like messing around with network manager - it
> only half-worked, anyway. The new card has been shipped, probably be
> here in a couple of days. Time to chalk the Dongle Wars up to experience
> and move on.
>
> TJ
>
"New" card arrived a few days ago, was installed, and worked
out-of-the-box with the b43 driver. Except that it was just the shipping
box. No commercial box, no antenna, no driver CD - nothing but the card
inside a static bag, wrapped in foam for protection. Good thing I didn't
need any of that other stuff.
Was an OEM card I expect, and while described as "new" showed signs of
having been mounted into a PC at some point. Being somebody who likes to
give the benefit of the doubt, I'm going to assume the card was pulled
from an unsold PC that was dismantled. Description does say the seller
is a surplus guy, has "more than 10 available," and has sold 68. Could
be "unused" would have been a better description than "new," but I'm not
going to quibble and I don't really care if it was used once or twice.
As long as it works, I'm happy.
TJ
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