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Last Review by JunctaJuvant - posted: 01-18-2006 02:06 PM [ Post a Review ] 


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 Nice card, well supported. Here in The Netherlands, we can use 13 channels, so I added the string "options ath_pci countrycode=528" to /etc/modprobe.conf because the default is just 11 channels. The madwifi page explains what countrycodes are and where to look them up. Using the new madwifi-ng code is a bit of a tricky affair at the moment, but there are also guides for that on the madwifi homepage. There is just one problem: mixed turbo mode is still not supported according to the information on the madwifi page. I don't use turbo mode, mixed or otherwise, but that's beside the point. Madwifi apparantly still does not fully support all the functions the card provides, thus I rate the card an 8 for use with GNU/Linux: very good, but not (yet) excellent.

Rating: 8
Product Details: "WG511T" by Vincent_Vega - posted: 02-27-2004 - Rating: ********* 9.11

Last Review by JunctaJuvant - posted: 11-21-2004 06:36 PM [ Post a Review ] 


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 This card is in my Toshiba Tecra 8000 laptop and it can play DVD's with mplayer, which is not bad in my opinion. As for getting the card going: in slackware I manually edit the xorg.conf configuration file in /etc/X11, because the default is VESA framebuffer mode. In SuSE Linux it all just worked immediately after installation. To improve performance, I would select 16bit colour instead of 24bit (even though that depth is supported by the card).

Rating: 8
Product Details: "MagicGraph 256AV NM2200" by gradedcheese - posted: 11-09-2003 - Rating: ********* 8.50

Last Review by JunctaJuvant - posted: 10-11-2004 08:41 AM [ Post a Review ] 


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 First I tried Slackware 10.0 and compiled the 2.4.26 kernel. I got almost everything working just fine, the Linksys WPC11 v3 card gave me minor difficulties. The soundcard however gave me too much trouble. No luck with alsaconf or even manually adding the BIOS settings in /etc/modules.conf So then I decided to install the free SuSE 9.1 personal version from CDROM because the network installation program froze (using Xircom 10/100 pcmcia creditcard ethernet adapter). Near the end of the installation you must probe for the soundcard and select the Yamaha card it detects. After installation you find that many programs are missing (mozilla,pine,mutt,gcc to name but a few) and you only get KDE. Fortunately this is no problem. First I updated the system with YaST, then I changed the installation source to ftp, entered the SuSE ftp server (any mirror should work) and the directory /pub/suse/i386/9.1, disabled the CDROM source and enabled the FTP source. Next I started the "Install and Remove Software" program in YaST and waited for it to compile the list of programs (this took some time). Finally you just select the programs you want, do a dependency check and download/install everything you need. JJ [edit] While using Slackware 10 I compiled my own 2.4.26 kernel from the included sources. Compiling your own kernel apparantly causes the ALSA drivers to be removed. Re-installing the ALSA drivers, executing alsaconf and allowing it to reconfigure /etc/modules.conf with the settings it probed, solved the problem. [/edit]

Rating: 10
Product Details: "Tecra 8000" by OdieQ - posted: 03-24-2004 - Rating: ******** 8.43



  



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