[KLUG Members] Wireless card issue - Charity case

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 01:55 +0000, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> Greetings!
>    This mailing list has seen its share of issues with wireless cards, and 
> I had one that came up over this past weekend, so I thought I would contrib-
> ute this one.
> 
>    The system is a Dell Optiplex G1, 400 mHz Pentium II, 160 MB RAM,
>    about 10 GB of hard drive space.
> 
>    The OS is Fedora Core 5, which appears to detect everything (else!)
>    properly on the system.. USB, sound, mouse, monitor, on-board ethernet,
>    etc. Most everything works outta the box, or is easy to get working with
>    little effort.
> 
>    One of the benefactors of this project (which is essentially recycling the
> system for use in a charitable giving situation) recently purchased a wireless
> card, specifically an Airlink101 AWLH3026T, which is a PCI card that provides
> 802.11G/B. Some rudimentary search online implied that would work in Linux.

Bob,
	From what I see is this: "Ralink RT2561 driver:
There is a Linux driver for the Ralink RT2561 chipset. This means that
at the moment cards like the Airlink Tech AWLH3026 PCI card, do work in
Linux. However: Only with Ralink's driver since January 2006." Which is
from <http://linux-wless.passys.nl/language/latest_news.english.php>. Is
the missing "T" suffix critical? Drivers to the AWLH3026 can be found
here <http://www.ralinktech.com.tw/supp-1.htm> and here
<http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/>. All references came from
<http://linux-wless.passys.nl/index.php>. Good luck.

Regards,

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net