[nzlug] WiFi USB Adaptor that works under Ubuntu & Red Hat

[Vik Olliver]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:37 +1300, Peter Butler wrote:
> > Word of warning - you'll probably want to build your own modules. ISTR
> > that the stock Dapper kernel cried uncle. When I get home I'll find a
> > pointer to the site with the source etc.
> Another word of warning - I've just bought one of these and can't get it 
> to work at all under Dapper (2.6.15-27-386).  I've tried the stock 
> drivers, the drivers from zd1211.ath.cx, ndiswrapper from the Ubuntu 
> repositories and the latest stable version of ndiswrapper.  There are a 
> bunch of HOWTOs on getting it to work under Dapper, but they are all out 
> of date and/or wrong, most with followup posts saying "I can't get this 
> to work with kernel version 2.6.X" (for recent values of X).
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on getting this to work, or should I chuck 
> it in the corner for six months?

I found this:

vik at vik:~$ apt-cache search zd1211
zd1211-source - Source for the zd1211 wireless driver module

Not tried it yet. I've bought one too, because of the Linux-friendly
recommendation it got in this list. Looks like I'm going to be buying
something else, because I don't have time to play around right now - too
much other urgent stuff on.

I just want a WiFi USB adapter that I can go and buy, plug into my Linux
laptop, and connect using a stock distro. This appears to be too much to
ask. I'll now have to take a Windows laptop along to LCA2007 just to
connect up wirelessly. That sucks.

Vik :v)
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