Partly replying to myself. I like it when lists like this contain answers as
well as questions.
It's frustrating to seach for something, only to find that other people have
had the sam
problem but have not reported how they fixed it.
Let's hope this is of some use to others.
I bought a BlueNext Wifi dongle, called the BN-WD54G. The site lists a Linux
driver which
is called RT73_Linux_STA_Drv1.0.3.6. (Their OSX driver is for 10.4 and I'm not
going to
risk loading a 10.4 kernel extension on either of my 10.5 systems!)
I downloaded and compiled it to create rt73.o. Using insmod rt73, it loads
with an error
message:
insmod: multiply defined
(There are two spaces between insmod and multiply, so it looks like an empty
string is
being reported).
Dmesg shows:
rtusb init ====>
usb.c: registered new driver rt73
idVendor = 0x148f, idProduct = 0x2573
Which is good. I can issue 'ifconfig rausb0 up' and have also compiled
iwconfig and iwlist
from wireless-tools (use Google!)
However, my ts7250 now crashes once or twice per day, which is less good.
I cannot connect to anything as 'iwlist rausbo scan' reports no networks nearby
- which
may be true.
Martin
--- In "Mahdi Jafari" <>
wrote:
>
> Dear Gonzalo,
>
> It would be nice if you can write more about the D-Link DWL-G122 and
> how to compile the driver, etc.
>
> Thanks,
> Mahdi
>
>
> --- In "Gonzalo A. de la Vega"
> <gadelavega@> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 2, 2007 11:51 AM, Joe Bouchard <jbouchard@> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 02:21:01PM -0000, naturalwatt wrote:
> > > > I notice thatTechnologic do a Wifi USB option at ship time.
> What other
> > > USB Wifi dongles can I
> > > > use? Ie, what has drivers availalable for 2.4 kernal?
> > > >
> >
> > I prefer the D-Link DWL-G122 with Ralink 2571 chipset. The driver is
> > much better than the old zd1211-r83 (new version, zd1211rw, doesn't
> > work with 2.4 kernel). With the Ralink RT73 driver you can control
> > communication parameters, like fragmentation and RTS thresholds and
> > retry limit. It's a little more difficult to adapt an external
> > antenna, but you still can do the job. I can send you the
> > instructions if you will (for both the DWL-G122 and the zd1211
> > IOGEAR).
> > Note: if you use the RT73 driver with a DWL-G122 tweaking the driver
> > so LEDs are never on saves some power (between 60 and 80mW, haven't
> > done a detailed measure).
> >
> > You can also get a zd1211 dongle with SMA connector for external
> antenna.
> >
> > > > Martin
> > >
> > > The ones they are shipping are based on zd1211 chipset.
> > > I _think_ it's safe to assume if you buy one based on zd1211 you
> should be
> > > all
> > > set. Note, that there is a zd1211A and zd1211B chip sets, and you
> need the
> > > kernel module A or B.
> >
> > That's right.
> >
> > > Personally, I buy them from Technologic Systems... I'd rather buy
> from
> > > them, and
> > > maybe pay $10 extra, to get something that "just works" without any
> > > mystery.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> >
>
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