Wirelsess N Draft 2 Mini PCI Card

[Markus Kesaromous]

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> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:29:11 +0100
> From: agraham at g-b.net
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Wirelsess N Draft 2 Mini PCI Card
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> On 07/14/2009 09:29 PM, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
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> Does anyone know of a 802.11N-Draft 2 Mini PCI card that is
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> P.S: I know that the cards that have the Ralink rt28xx chipset series
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> are NOT supported by linux, and even the Ralink provided driver does
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> not work in F11. I have already posted a request for help about that
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> and I was told effectively to "firgetaboudit" :) :)
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> Cheers,
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> Markus
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> The EEEPC 1000 (Linux version) (I have two of em) do work perfectly
> with the Ralink rt2860 driver in Fedora 11, I connect @ 135Mb/s using
> WPA/WPA2 security, as a frontend to MythTV these machines are perfect :)
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> In my case, I used the WebGui to set it up rather than Network Manager.
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> I don't think Ivo's drivers (http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/) support N
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> Albert.
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After some tinkering, I found that the fc11 kernel package from rpmfusion has the rt2860 driver enabled, and I am pleased with it. Unfortunately, I am not connecting at anything above 54mB/s becuase I am sharing someone's router, who refuses to upgrade to wireless N.

Cheers,

M

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