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===== Encore ENLWI-N 802.11n PCI Wireless Adapter Published on January 08, 2010 Written by Michael Larabel While wireless chipsets are not as complicated as graphics processors, under Linux they can cause just as many headaches when it comes to getting them working reliably. More hardware vendors have opened up to supporting their wireless chipsets under Linux, but still it can be a pain having to hunt down the firmware for a wireless adapter, needing to build an out-of-tree driver, having issues with the driver such as with WEP/WPA authentication, or if all else fails trying to get the Windows driver working under Linux through ndiswrapper. However, for those looking for a PCI-based 802.11g/n wireless adapter that will work "out of the box" with modern distributions like Ubuntu 9.10, one that we have found to do the job is the Encore ENLWI-N. [...] We had installed the Encore ENLWI-N 802.11n PCI wireless adapter into a desktop system that was running Ubuntu 9.10 (x86_64) with the Linux 2.6.31 kernel. Immediately upon entering the GNOME desktop, we were able to connect to both secured and unsecured wireless networks -- both 802.11g and 802.11n too -- through NetworkManager and this RT2860T-powered wireless card. There were no firmware headaches, driver problems, or connection issues. We did not even need to use Ubuntu's Restricted Driver Manager to obtain any packages. The Encore ENLWI-N had "just worked" with Ubuntu 9.10 using the rt2860 Linux driver. For over a month now, we have been running this 802.11n wireless adapter in a system constantly for over a month and have yet to run into any problems with this wireless network adapter. The rt2860 Linux driver is also not some reverse-engineered wireless driver, but in fact, Ralink had created this Linux driver. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
