[plug] USB WiFi 54g dongles

[Chris Griffin]

Thanks for that Shannon.
I have heard of the show in which my namesake appears but have never seen
it. One of my work colleges tells me that other than the fact that I am
definitely into my gadgets, there are no other similarities.
Thanks for the cool name rating.

Kind regards,
Chris Griffin

On 10/31/05, Shannon Carver <Shannon.Carver at p-s-t.com.au> wrote:
>
>  Chris
>
>     $79.00<http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?name=NetPlus&linkid=2&newurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netplus.com.au%2FSpecials%2Fbody_specials.asp&query=G122&uca=0-0-0&kwi=>
>
> D-Link DWLG122 USB WiFi 54Mbps Wireless NIC USB Wifi Lan Key
> NetPlus<http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?name=NetPlus&linkid=1&newurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.netplus.com.au&query=G122&uca=0-0-0&kwi=>(WA) |
> www.netplus.com.au <http://www.netplus.com.au> | updated: 30-10-2005
>
> $59.00<http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?name=Zetacom&linkid=2&newurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zetacom.net.au%2Fresult.php%3Fbrand%3DQUxM%26cat%3DV0xOQQ%3D%3D&query=G122&uca=0-0-0&kwi=>
>
> D-LINK DWL-G122, AirPlusG+ 11/54Mbps Wireless LAN USB KEY
> Zetacom<http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/redirect.cgi?name=Zetacom&linkid=1&newurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.zetacom.net.au&query=G122&uca=0-0-0&kwi=>(WA) |
> www.zetacom.net.au <http://www.zetacom.net.au> | updated: 31-10-2005
>
>
>
>
>    I'm sure you get told this all the time, but Chris Griffin is possibly
> the coolest name I've heard, even better than Max Power..
>
>  I shall let my morbid fascination with Family guy never again be known.
>
>  Shannon
>
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>
> *From:* plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] *On
> Behalf Of *Chris Griffin
> *Sent:* Monday, 31 October 2005 1:12 PM
> *To:* plug at plug.org.au
> *Subject:* Re: [plug] USB WiFi 54g dongles
>
>  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
> --
> "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability
> to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable
> for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams
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