[Cialug] wifi usb suggestions?

[Paul Gray]

Adk wrote:
> I have an Averatec av-2260 lappy. Just loaded 64 Studio (Etch amd64) on it.
> Runs great except built-in usb Ralink wifi. Seems when kernel got close to
> 2.6.20 Ralink support went south.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a known working usb wifi adapter that might be better
> supported with Etch amd64?

ralink is well supported (albeit a crappy chipset) in Linux.  Do not use 
the ndiswrappers, but use the rt73 driver (possibly plus the rt73usb 
bridge module).   These are available from serialmonkey:
   http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com

-PG


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