Re: Rt2500 Cards and Ubuntu

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From: James C
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 23:20

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On 07/05/08 17:44, tron wrote:
> I am looking at installing the latest version of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, I was 
> wondering if they have made the RT2500 wireless cards work in linux as I 
> don't have a wired connection to my network I run everything off 
> wireless and the card that I have in my desktop is a Dlink DWL-G520 card 
> with the RT2xxx chipset.

I use ndiswrapper and the Windows driver for my wireless LAN adapter.
Prior to Ubuntu 7.10 this sometimes dropped out
but since 7.10 it has been very reliable.
If you don't find a working open source driver try using ndiswrapper.

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