<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/8/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Raphael Pooser</b> <<a href="mailto:rpooser@gmail.com">rpooser@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Um, linux isn't really that bad with wifi as people seem to think. All<br>you need is a good chipset. ANYTHING RALINK WILL DO. Why? because they<br>have provided the source for their drivers to the linux community and
<br>now there are good high quality drivers native to linux, no ndiswrapper,<br>no windows drivers, just a straight up kernel module code which you<br>download from rt2500 at sourceforge and compile from source, so you know
<br>it will work on your system no matter what.</blockquote><div><br>
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GhAaaaaa!!!<br>
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I bow to you o master if you got a RaLink card working reliably with that<br>
absymal sourceforge driver. You are turely talented.<br>
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I've tried it. It sucked. It would drop out for no reason, did not<br>
support half the needed utilities (scanning, signal strength measurement)<br>
would work one boot, and not the next, and generally was a<br>
monstrous PITA.<br>
<br>
I ran ndiswrapper on it and it was stable as a rock. <br>
<br>
However, WiFi still does not seem fast enough for more<br>
than ONE connection to my backend at a time, where as<br>
the 100gig wired network works fine for this. This is too bad<br>
because I wanted to rum my backend wireless, but now<br>
have to have it wired and at most only one Frontend<br>
works wireless at a time.<br>
<br>
<br>
On the other hand, My last SuSE install uses a Atheros driver<br>
on my Netgear card and it worked right out of the box. Never a need to<br>
go the ndiswrapper route.<br>
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