Hi, did you try using WPA by the way? I've been looking at the list of supported wireless cards on the FSF site, and I'm thinking of getting the ASUS WL-167g USB card, which also uses the RT2500 chipset. I need WPA-PSK support, which I'm hoping to be able to get working using NetworkManager (plus the GNOME or KDE frontend), or an even easier method.
J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote: > Anthony Patarini wrote: >> Yep, that's been my experience. It's actually one of two wireless >> devices the FSF explicitly recommends and has officially used it (so >> you can be fairly sure there is no nonfree firmware needed). The other >> is a USB device. It's on the page I linked before. I haven't used it >> in a while, but I researched its Free-ness before I bought it and >> never had any trouble getting it to work on Ubuntu Warty and Hoary. >> Hope that helps. > > I have tried the ASUS WL-107g Card Bus device (purchased from NewEgg, as > recommended) and I'm writing to confirm to the readers that Patarini is > right: it works perfectly right out of the box. Plug it in, reboot, > activate the device with the GUI Network control panel, and it works. It > doesn't "see" all the networks I'd like it to, but it works for the one > wireless network I care about most. > > I can't quite get it going the way I expected with NetworkManager, but > I'm guessing that something is either set oddly for me or perhaps > there's a bug with NetworkManager's ability to handle multiple network > devices properly (this laptop has built-in wireless which requires > non-free firmware to work fully, so I'm not expecting it to work under > gNewSense GNU/Linux, hence the purchase of the ASUS card). > > NetworkManager's GNOME icon "spins" endlessly when I try to activate the > ASUS device on a network. No connection ever starts. If I uninstall > NetworkManager packages and use the manual start of the network control > panel, it comes up when I start up the machine and login and continues > working. To me this says that indeed, I can use it and something is > awry with NetworkManager. > > Thanks again Anthony Patarini for the good advice. I'll recommend this > ASUS device in the future. > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > -- Please avoid sending me Microsoft Office files - see http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html. Don't get Windows Vista, get GNU/Linux - see http://www.getgnulinux.org. _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
