Comments on: Linux-friendly wireless vendors

By: Ralink

Ralink — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:02:08 +0000

Please refer to http://www.ralinktech.com “Support” page for the latest information on Ralink Drivers for Linux
http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html

By: Simon

Simon — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 08:47:12 +0000

Good sites if you’re looking for info about wireless cards:
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

The second link has detailed description of vendors’ attitudes about open source drivers.

shryko: when looking for Linux support for your hardware, don’t go to the hardware vendor’s site, use Google instead. However, chances are that if your vendor provided working source code, you won’t need to do anything, the card will just work out of the box with whatever distribution you choose to use.

By: shryko

shryko — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:48:22 +0000

I am just looking at shifting my laptop over to linux, and when I checked the website for my PCMCIA wifi card, I found a big surprise… the website says windows 98/2000/NT/ME/XP, yet, inside the package of drivers they had both linux source and linux binaries… however, as I looked deeper, I found out that the linux support is actually somewhat limited, since the readme says only Redhat 7.1-7.3 are supported, with kernel v.2.4.17, 2.4.183…

so, kudos to SMC for being open with us, but, it could be a lot better…

at least there is something that can be built upon, and expanded.

By: gotFoo » Linux Wireless Resources

gotFoo » Linux Wireless Resources — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 05:05:11 +0000

[...] This blog entry got me on the right path Linux-friendly wireless vendors. List of vendors: -Ralink RT2500 chipsets based wireless 802.11g devices -ZyDAS chipsets based wireless 802.11a/b/g devices Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu -How to: Broadcom Wireless cards without Ndiswrapper -Wireless BCM4318 AirForce Card Hard-Ware -Belkin Wireless-G Notebook Adapter Model F5D7010 -MSI MP54G4 Mini PCI Wireless-G Notebook Adapter [...]

By: linux.gotfoo.org » Archives » Linux Wireless Resources

linux.gotfoo.org » Archives » Linux Wireless Resources — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:22:37 +0000

[...] This page is my resource and links page for trying to get wifi working on my Gateway MX6440 laptop which has a poorly supported Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02). At some point I am going to buy either a USB Wifi, a PCMCIA Wifi Card or a miniPCI Wifi card. This blog entry got me on the right path Linux-friendly wireless vendors. List of vendors: -Ralink RT2500 chipsets based wireless 802.11g devices -ZyDAS chipsets based wireless 802.11a/b/g devices [...]

By: gotFoo{?} » Linux Wireless Resources

gotFoo{?} » Linux Wireless Resources — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 15:02:50 +0000

By: dsd

dsd — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:12:44 +0000

ceztko, I know, I was at the summit. I am writing more about it later :)

The stack is actually used by more drivers than that. zd1211 and bcm, plus (I believe) others. Indeed it does have limitations, such as (without softmac) it is somewhat limited to intel-style hardware.

By: Tobias Scherbaum

Tobias Scherbaum — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:09:00 +0000

I’m using a Linksys WMP54G PCI card with a RT2500 chipset … sadly the driver isn’t SMP capable, otherwise it works like a charm,

By: cat

cat — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 04:24:25 +0000

All of the driver of rt2500 is station mode in the internet.
I find the rt2500 AP mode driver a long time.
May I get the AP driver for RT2500 ?

By: aldrik

aldrik — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 20:53:06 +0000

I use the ralink rt2500 driver with a MSI CB 54G2 wich is a card bus, and all is working perfectly, I’m very satisfied.