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Gigafast WF721-AEX
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1 23317 11-05-2004
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100% of reviewers $13.00 9.0



Description: Gigafast shipped many card under the same model name:WF721-AEX. So there is two possibility that your chipset could be under my knowledge.
It might RealTek's RTL8180 or Atmel AT76C502A.
Both chipset does work in Linux!!! I am using Red Hat Linux 9.0 with all stock rpm
for further information on howto get it working in linux, please go to http://www.geocities.com/tricky886@sbcglobal.net/
Keywords: Gigafast WF721-AEX, wireless , 802.11b, RTL8180, Atmel
/sbin/lspci output: 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8180 (rev 20)
Chipset: RTL8180
Connection Type: PCMCIA


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Old 11-05-2004, 01:21 PM   #1
marcheikens
 
Registered: Aug 2003
Distribution: Ubuntu 6.06
Posts: 66

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $13.00 | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8-9-686
Distribution: Debian Unstable



The only reason I give this a 9 and not a 10 is because it was hard finding the documentation. I have the acx100 version of this card. For that version, the best place to go is:

http://www.houseofcraig.net/acx100_howto.php

The only part that's confusing is that you have to make sure to install the kernel headers (apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.8-9-686 for Debian with a P3 like mine); I don't think that was explained very well.

After going through the setup part of that link, this works like a dream, as long as I remember to ifdown eth0 in order to avoid no route to host problems (tries eth0 before the wlan interface).
 




  



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