[plug] USB WiFi 54g dongles

[Chris Griffin]

Brad,

can I ask where you got it from and how much?

Chris Griffin

On 10/31/05, Brad Campbell <brad at wasp.net.au> wrote:
>
> G'day all,
>
> After a day of combing the shops and googling to try and get something
> that works I have settled on
> a D-Link DWL-G122 Hw: B1 <--- this is the important bit. The Hw rev is
> written on the bottom of the
> dongle, but nowhere to be found outside the box. I just crossed my fingers
> when I bought it..
>
> This works with the RT2570 driver from here
> http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads
> The new rt2x00 driver loads and talks to the card but can't do WEP or even
> most things yet. The
> RT2570 driver "Just worked". Gotta love that.
>
> Also, a 3COM 3CRUSB10075 (Has WL-545 written on the box also).
>
> Now this one is supposed to be supported by a driver in sourceforge
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211
> However it refused to function with this device..
>
> Having said that, 3COM have been kind enough to post an unsupported driver
> that works just dandy (if
> you can tolerate some dmesg noise and the odd "Basness in usb_unlink_urb
> at
> drivers/usb/core/urb.c:461" Message (Have seen no ill effects from this
> yet, only happens on
> ifdown/unplug sometimes
>
>
> http://www.3com.com/products/en_US/result.jsp?selected=all&sort=effdt&order=desc&sku=3CRUSB10075
>
> Thanks 3Com for a driver of any kind that works, and thanks Ralink for
> fully GPLing your driver(s)
>
> I actually just went to pick up a 11b dongle but could not actually find
> *anywhere* here that sold
> them, so ended up getting the two that looked the most linux compatible in
> the hope I could at least
> make one of them work.
>
> Never know, this might help someone.
>
> On another note, just Re-Celled my Li-ION batteries and am Luuuurving the
> 6-7 hour normal runtime on
> a PIII-M laptop :p) (Down to 2.5 hours running continuous kernel compiles
> in parallel with
> continuous updatedb)
>
> Having said that, it now takes 6-7 hours to charge a battery :\
>
> Regards,
> Brad
> --
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