I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with Linux/CentOS. Right now I'm debating between a reasonably cheap Belkin 54G and a slightly more expensive Netgear 54G.
Thanks.
mhr
On Sunday June 15 2008, MHR wrote:
I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with Linux/CentOS. Right now I'm debating between a reasonably cheap Belkin 54G and a slightly more expensive Netgear 54G.
Thanks.
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Anything that has the Zydas chip set just works so long as you've installed the firmware which I believe is available with v4x, 5x as an RPM
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Terry Polzin foxec208@wowway.com wrote:
Anything that has the Zydas chip set just works so long as you've installed the firmware which I believe is available with v4x, 5x as an RPM
Interesting - the google page for zydas usb units lists nothing by the big names (netgear, dlink, linksys or belkin) and only the "off" brands like TrendWARE and Zonet.
Also according to google hits, the zydas driver is incorporated into the 2.6.18 kernel, so it should already be in CentOS 5.x (yeah!).
I'll post what I find....
Thanks.
mhr
On 6/15/08, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Terry Polzin foxec208@wowway.com wrote:
Anything that has the Zydas chip set just works so long as you've installed the firmware which I believe is available with v4x, 5x as an RPM
Interesting - the google page for zydas usb units lists nothing by the big names (netgear, dlink, linksys or belkin) and only the "off" brands like TrendWARE and Zonet.
Also according to google hits, the zydas driver is incorporated into the 2.6.18 kernel, so it should already be in CentOS 5.x (yeah!).
I'll post what I find....
Check out the specs on the Netgear and other web sites, to see if you can find out which chip they use. If not, send an email to their Sales or Tech Support Department and ask which chip they use in the unit(s) you are considering. So far, I don't think we've ever had a failure, with anything from Netgear, but other companies make good products too.
Terry Polzin wrote:
On Sunday June 15 2008, MHR wrote:
I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with Linux/CentOS. Right now I'm debating between a reasonably cheap Belkin 54G and a slightly more expensive Netgear 54G.
Anything that has the Zydas chip set just works so long as you've installed the firmware which I believe is available with v4x, 5x as an RPM
Any Zydas chipset?
tech wrote:
MHR wrote:
I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons)
I have a tp-link tl-wn322g.
The folks at tp-link were very easy to contact and helpful. They provided me the driver for it by e-mail
if the driver is Open source, perhaps you should ask them to create a ticket at https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ and we can roll that into a usable kmod+DD
MHR wrote:
I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with Linux/CentOS. Right now I'm debating between a reasonably cheap Belkin 54G and a slightly more expensive Netgear 54G.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
That is /awesome,/ Johnny - thank you, thank you, thank you!
I noticed that the Trendnet TEW-424UB is on the list - does anyone have any experience with this one? It's really cheap, but the people at Micro Center (where I can get it locally) consider Trendnet stuff to be junk (and, actually, I had a Trendnet router for about a week before I gave up on it and wound up with a really excellent D-Link one instead).
Also, does anyone know when the Belkin F5D7050 became available with v 4000? That would be my second choice (unless the Trendnet really is junk, in which case it would be my first).
Thanks (again).
mhr
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 11:36 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
That is /awesome,/ Johnny - thank you, thank you, thank you!
I noticed that the Trendnet TEW-424UB is on the list - does anyone have any experience with this one? It's really cheap, but the people at Micro Center (where I can get it locally) consider Trendnet stuff to be junk (and, actually, I had a Trendnet router for about a week before I gave up on it and wound up with a really excellent D-Link one instead).
It needs a better antenna. Skip.
I have not tried wi-fi on CentOS, but last I checked the Backtrack distro guys had good things to say about the Edimax EW-7318USg. It uses an Ralink chipset and the support for Linux is supposed to be good, so I would think it would work fine. Supports packet capture and injection too.
HTH
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
I need to get a wireless device for an upcoming trip (USB is preferable to PCMCIA for a long list of reasons) and I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with or recommendations for such items, particularly which ones work with Linux/CentOS. Right now I'm debating between a reasonably cheap Belkin 54G and a slightly more expensive Netgear 54G.
Thanks.
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