I want to buy a wireless card

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 14:38:36 -0700
Jack Wilborn <jkwilborn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to hear how you do with addition of a wifi USB dongle.
> You have happened to pick one of the hardest items to get working in
> Linux. Seems most of the wifi cards are proprietary in nature so you
> can't get the firmware to make them operate.  You need to look at the
> newest and see if they are on the Debian list of supported devices.
> I have  one of them that is a PCI card that is supported, if you like
> I'll dig up the number from TP-Link.  But it's not a USB it's a PCI.
> I can't think if I have a USB one around or not, seems like I could
> never get the firmware to operate it properly.  So that why I'm
> interested in if you make it operate properly and completely.  It was
> my first problem with Linux and is still around even though I've
> learned to look up what they support or not, but I don't know how to
> really do it for the smaller embedded CPU's.
> 
> Will be listening.
> 
where should be the problem? Just check with man what the drivers
support. His problem might be ARM. But loading the firmware via ARM
should not be that different.

Erich


> Jack
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Ganbold Tsagaankhuu
> <ganbold at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:08 PM, XiaoQI Ge <ghw at 7axu.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I want to buy a wireless card, users CubieBoard (ARM) Internet
> > > connection
> > >
> > > I want to buy a wireless card, but if_rum seems only say that they
> > support
> > > WN321G, do not know or not to support [WN321G +] The wireless
> > > network
> > card,
> > > http://www.tp-link.com.cn/product_28.html
> > >
> > > ===
> > > Or is there a cheaper USB wireless network adapter recommend it?
> > >
> >
> >
> > I have Ralink based usb wifi (WLI-UC-GNM) like
> >
> > http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a220m.1000858.1000725.15.3wfRJm&id=9672376
> >
> > 635&user_id=667433668&is_b=1&cat_id=2&q=buffalo+usb&rn=827b20043c8cb505bf428bbc
> > 70d5a4c8
> >
> > if_run in head should support it if I'm not mistaken and good thing
> > is it supports AP mode.
> > But I didn't test it yet on Cubieboard.
> >
> > Ganbold
> >
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > > ===
> > > Regards.
> > > By: XiaoQI Ge; PGP:8B09D5F7
> > > WWW: https://www.7axu.com/
> > > Gtalk/E-Mail <ghw at 7axu.com>:ghw at 7axu.com
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