On Monday 22 October 2007 16:01:48 Tony Arnold wrote: > Mac, > > On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 15:49 +0100, Mac wrote: > > I wonder if Al's reading this. I'll remind him what he told me. > > ;-) > > > > Alan Pope wrote: > > > Hi Mac, > > > > > > On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 09:56 +0100, Mac wrote: > > >> For example, linuxemporium recommends Edimax. I bought one some time > > >> ago, but it didn't work 'out of the box' with Feisty. It doesn't > > >> work 'out of the box' with Gutsy live CD. So I'm sceptical of > > >> anything that doesn't come with an 'I've actually seen this working' > > >> recommendation. > > > > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/RalinkRT2500 > > > > > > "The easiest way to get your wireless working if you have rt2500-based > > > wireless is to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10. Everything works out of the > > > box, including WPA." > > It kind of worked but with poor throughput! > > > Luckily, I haven't started trying to install Gutsy with the Edimax > > RAlink card yet. In the same thread, Steve Drake said > > The Edimax cards from the Linux Emporium use the RT2561 chi set. It's > not clear to me whether these suffer the same problems as the RT2500 > chip set device that I have.
I've got a RT61 based card and I have to disable and then re-enable the card in the control centre when I login and every so often. Hope this gets fixed smartish, I'm going to be buying another card to put in a new machine I just built. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
