[plug] USB WiFi 54g dongles - Dragged Heavily Off Topi

Mon Oct 31 14:08:21 WST 2005

Heh, That's ok.  If you don't mind brain numbing cartoons full of
stupidity (Think Simpsons but ten times as stupid), then it's a great
watch, otherwise just revel in the fact that you share the name of a
funny character.

Back to the Wifi Dongles, if you wanted to know where I got those prices
from, its http://www.staticice.com.au/  If you don't mind ordering from
over east they come even cheaper than $59 too.

Regards

Shannon Carver

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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 1:28 PM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] USB WiFi 54g dongles

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&qu
ery=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 | 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 | 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
<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&or
der=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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