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From: Josiah Jenkins 
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Subject: Re: Belkin 802.11g Wireless Laptop Card F5D7010
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:52:05 +0000
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Whilst perusing Usenet on 26 Feb 2007 03:15:38 GMT, I read these words
from Joe LaVigne  :

>On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:28:35 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>
>> Whilst perusing Usenet on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:54:38 -0700, I read
>> these words from ray  :
>> 
>>>On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:19:48 +0000, Josiah Jenkins wrote:
>>>
>>>> After three days of trying, I've about reached the stage
>>>> of giving up on getting my USR5410 card to run under
>>>> Ubuntu 6.06 and am looking to alternatives.
>>>> 
>>>> After digging around the net, the above seems to work
>>>> OK under Ubuntu and Debian and is available.
>>>> 
>>>> Can anyone confirm (or otherwise) if it does work ?
>>>> 
>>>> Alternatively, any suggestions for a card which will
>>>> work without too much tweaking of files ?
>>>
>>>I had one. It used to work on 5.10. When I upgraded to 6.06 I was unable
>>>to get working again using either ndiswrapper or the native drivers. I
>>>found half a dozen 'recipes' people had written to get it working - all
>>>failed. I finally purchased a Dlind WNA2330 (Atheros chipset instead of
>>>broadcomm) and it worked immediately, flawlessly 'out of the box'.
>> 
>> Had me hunting all over the internet there !
>> You mean a 'D-link WNA2330' ?
>> 
>> According to the info I have from my potential purchase source,
>> it's not an 'Atheros' chipset (as fitted in the F5D7000)
>> 
>> The F5D70_10_, which I'm looking at,
>> uses a 'Ralink RT2500 chipset' !
>> 
>> Unfortunately the D-Link WNA2330 doesn't appear to
>> be available here (UK).
>
>I highly recommend finding a card that IS available to you
>that uses the Atheros chipset.

'pcmcia wifi cards, atheros chipset' in Google
(and resticting the search to UK sites) gives just over 400 hits.
(with the filter 'off' it's nearer 82,000)
most of these are links to out-of-date postings on forums.

The problem is finding a card *currently* available using a particular
'known to work' chipset. As I said elsewhere, there appears to be a
fairly common problem with wireless cards in that the manufacturer
switches the source for the chipset but doesn't give any indication of
this in their part number.

(It doesn't appear to make a blind bit of difference under Windoze
but causes all sorts of support problems under Linux.)

I really don't want, at the present time, to spend £85 (US$170)
on a War Driver or £82 (US$160)  on a Cisco Aironet, both of
which 'appear' to use an Atheros chipset and work *anywhere*.

(Aren't UK prices are a *lot* higher than US ones !)

What gives me some encouragement on the Belkin is the fact
that Ralink have apparently open-sourced their drivers.

I've now ordered one so . . . fingers crossed . . .

-- jjj
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