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-jf In the meantime, here is your PSA: "It's so hard to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help." -- Andrew Fear, Software Product Manager, NVIDIA Corporation http://kerneltrap.org/node/7228 On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Soh Kam Yung <[email protected]> wrote: > [http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=encore_enlwin&num=1] > > ===== > 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] >
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