Re: Gigabyte miniPCI GN-WI01GS - will it work with ral(4) ?

2007-04-19 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:55:10PM +0200, viq wrote:
> I wasn't able to find much either way... According to
> http://ralink.rapla.net/ it has RT2501 Turbo chipset, which consists
> of RT2527 RF chip and RT2561S BB/MAC chip (whatever that is). I don't
> care much for the "108 Mbps", but will it work at all, or is it one of
> "not quite supported" cards? Does anyone have any experience either
> way?

This should work fine, quoting ral(4):

"The RT2501 chipset is the second generation of 802.11a/b/g adapters from
Ralink.  It consists of two integrated chips, an RT2561 MAC/BBP and an
RT2527 radio transceiver."

108 Mbps or SuperG are Atheros marketing taglines, avoid such cards.

Jonathan



Re: Gigabyte miniPCI GN-WI01GS - will it work with ral(4) ?

2007-04-19 Thread viq

On 19/04/07, Jonathan Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:55:10PM +0200, viq wrote:
> I wasn't able to find much either way... According to
> http://ralink.rapla.net/ it has RT2501 Turbo chipset, which consists
> of RT2527 RF chip and RT2561S BB/MAC chip (whatever that is). I don't
> care much for the "108 Mbps", but will it work at all, or is it one of
> "not quite supported" cards? Does anyone have any experience either
> way?

This should work fine, quoting ral(4):

"The RT2501 chipset is the second generation of 802.11a/b/g adapters from
Ralink.  It consists of two integrated chips, an RT2561 MAC/BBP and an
RT2527 radio transceiver."


Yes, though that S at the end of RT2561S had me worried... But I got
an off-list confirmation from someone knowledgeable that this should
work.


108 Mbps or SuperG are Atheros marketing taglines, avoid such cards.


Yeah, I don't care much about those, as the other end has a normal
ralink card in there, so I wouldn't be getting any benefit from it
anyway.


Jonathan


Thanks.

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viq