Note that D-Link has quite a bad reputation, and IMO their products are
so bad that I really feel they should not even be in the networking
business...if you bought their D-Link wireless USB adapter I'd return
it for a refund asap and buy an alternative USB wireless adapter such
as a Linksys one, why (or even better, a Belkin wireless bridge)? Simple, the driver for the USB adapter is one
I've had first hand experience with, I've tried their driver both on
MacOS X and Windows XP, both OSes for which they claim compatibility
with however on neither of those OSes did their driver ever keep the
USB adapter working for more then 2 minutes at which point sometimes
taking the adapter out and plugging it back in would make it work for
another 2 minutes and more often I would have to restart for the dang
thing to work again...I called D-Link and the support was of no help
other then they begged me not to return the D-Link device for a refund
and tried to bribe me with free lifetime support (and that would do me
good when I don't have a working device and they have no solution how?
;-) )...so I returned it, purchased a Belkin wireless bridge and am happy
ever since. Also note that a friend of mine who also purchased the
D-Link USB device had the same experience, and in addition I was at a
computer camp who used a D-Link router to power one of the
classrooms...the thing failed almost instantly and every time had to be
reconfigured and rebooted just to fail again. So to sum it all up, just stay clear away from D-Link networking products.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jon Buttjer</b> <<a href="mailto:jontheisguy@gmail.com">
jontheisguy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Angelo,<br>Recently a guy named Matt tested a few PCMCIA/PC Card wireless
<br>adapters that he bought at CompUSA. Of the ones he tested, he<br>recommended the DLink 630 and the Belkin G adapter. Depending on<br>distro and chipset, some plug and work while others need NDIS drivers<br>installed.
802.11b support should be fairly standard in most distros,<br>while 802.x (a or g or whatever) might be a little more tricky.<br>Orinoco chipset is excellent, while Broadcom is fairly standard. Also<br>beware that just because one person has Linksys WPC11 working..
<br>doesn't mean that another with WPC11 v2 will work. Chipset, chipset,<br>chipset.<br><br>Good luck,<br>Jon<br><br><br>On 4/30/06, Joe Wojcik <<a href="mailto:joe.wojcik@gmail.com">joe.wojcik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>><br>><br>><br>> On 4/30/06, Angelo Bertolli <<a href="mailto:angelo@freeshell.org">angelo@freeshell.org</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>> I was wondering if anyone knew how well the CompUSA wireless products
<br>> work with Linux. They have some very good deals right now on wireless G<br>> products including PCMCIA cards, PCI cards, and USB devices. Does<br>> anyone know if these work? How about wireless USB in general for Linux?
<br>><br>> Angelo<br>> I ended up with two different PCMCIA cards both with Atheros chip sets. I<br>> had a timeresolving the driver situation but with instructions from a Novell<br>> Cool Site, I installed the Madwifi drivers and the card works fine., Joe
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